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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM49130 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Carbonicola binneyi Wright
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Carbonicola binneyi Wright

Carbonicola bipennis (Brown) T & W 1947

Provenance
Registration No. GSM49130
Collector Survey 1929
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures c.100' above Arley. Communis [Ovalis] zone. 1" = 85.
Location
Country England
Locality Eagley Bleach Works - Eagley - Bolton.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Trueman & Weir 1947 Pal Sol Monog plvi.,fig2

Wright WB 1930 Mem & Proc Manch Lit & Phil Soc 74 No 4 p.48 plI.,fig5

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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/BGS/P830066.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

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