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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM48645 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Anthracosia concinna (Wright)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Anthracosia concinna (Wright)

Carbonicola concinna (Wright)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM48645
Collector Survey 1927
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - Ashclough Coal - Lower Similis-Pulchra (Pulchra zone WBW)
Location
Country England
Locality R.Irwell - Section below Weir - Little Lever - Lancs.
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

Mem Geol Surv 1 85 Manchester p.146 56F

Trueman & Weir 1951 Mon Carb non-marine Lamell CV Pt 5 Pal Soc p.150-151 plxviii.,fig15

Wright WB 1928 Summ Prog for 1928 Pt II p.44 pli.,figs11,11a,11b

Available Images

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