GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 35002 - J 35009 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Echinoidea

      Order Holectypoida

Fossil Name Holectypus hemisphaericus (Agassiz)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Holectypus hemisphaericus (Agassiz) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Holectypus hemisphaericus (Agassiz) – See Wright, T. (1858)

Discoidea marginalis M'Coy – See McCoy (1854a)

Discoidea marginalis M'Coy – See McCoy (1848a): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 35002 - J 35009
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Broadwinsor (labelled Broad Windsor), Bridport, Dorset
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii p.413

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology p.60

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.32

Wright, T. 1858. Monograph of the British fossil Echinodermata of the Oolitic formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. i p.264

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