GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BMB BMB 007896 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Echinoidea

      Order Cidaroida
Fossil Name Cidaris serrifera Forbes in Dixon, 1850
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cidaris serrifera Forbes in Dixon, 1850
Provenance
Registration No. BMB 007896
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Booth Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Malling, Lewes, East Sussex
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Middle Chalk
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Late Cretaceous Epoch (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Forbes, E. 1850, 1878. Notes on Cretaceous Echinodermata. IN: Dixon, F., 1850, 1878. Forbes, E., 1850, IN Dixon, F. p.338, Plate xxiv, Figs. 15-19.
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