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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM53073 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Carbonicola obliqua Wright
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Carbonicola obliqua Wright

Provenance
Registration No. GSM53073
Collector survey
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments 20-30ft below Rambler orUpper Mountain Mine.Formerly Hs 1827
Location
Country England
Locality Ravenshead Brickwork Quarry Holland Moor
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone lenisulcata
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Eagar 1947 Phil Trans Roy Soc Ser B no 593 p.50 pl.I fig.7 39

Trueman & Weir 1947 Pal Soc Mon pl.XII,fig.18

Wright WB 1934 Summ Prog for1933 2 II p.15

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P830985.JP2

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