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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM38433 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Posidonia insignis (Jackson)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Posidonia insignis (Jackson)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM38433
Collector survey 1923
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Holcombe Brook Marine Band Formerly SH 2816
Location
Country England
Locality Royshaw Brick Works,Blackburn Station,Lancs
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Millstone Grit Group
Biozone G. cancellatum
Geological Age

Namurian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (319 – 329 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Bashkirian Age – Serpukhovian Age ]

References
References

Jackson JW 1927 Mem Proc Manchester Lit & Phil Soc LXXI 10 p.114

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P816238.JP2

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/BGS/P830309.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P816727.JP2

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/BGS/P830924.JP2

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