GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM38461 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -
Fossil Name Eoptychia tenuistriata (Portlock)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Eoptychia tenuistriata (Portlock)

Loxonema tenuistriatum (Portlock)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM38461
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Portlock Coll.
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Aghalurcher,Tyrone
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Dinantian Subsystem (Carboniferous Period) (326.4 – 359.2 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Longstaff 1933 QJGS LXXXIX p.115 pl.IX,fig.1

Portlock 1843 Geol Rept p.418 pl.XXXI,fig.4
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