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Fossil specimen : BGS Hs2291 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Anthraconaia hindi (Wright)
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Anthraconaia hindi (Wright)

Provenance
Registration No. Hs2291
Collector Survey 1929
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - above Worsley Four Foot - Upper similis-pulchra zone (Pulchra sone WBW).
Location
Country England
Locality Farnworth Cemetery Brickworks - R. Croal - Bolton - 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

Trueman AE 1938 Geol Mag Vol LXXV p.466 3c

Wright WB 1930 Mem & Proc Manch Lit & Phil Soc Vol 74 No 3 p.44

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P830726.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P831008.JP2

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