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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM15657 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Anthraconauta
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Anthraconauta

Anthracomya calcifera or calciferus Hind

Provenance
Registration No. GSM15657
Collector Survey 1898
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - Lst at base of Newcastle Series (6" = 11SE)
Location
Country England
Locality Beazley House - N. Staffs.
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

Hind 1899 Q J G S p.366 plxxv.,fig15

Weir 1960 Mon Palaeont Soc p.295-297 plxxxii.,fig35

Available Images

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