GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : OUM J.08315 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Pectinida
Fossil Name Lima (Plagiostoma) mutabilis Arkell, 1926
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Lima (Plagiostoma) mutabilis Arkell, 1926 – See Arkell (1931): Holotype

Lima (Plagiostoma) mutabilis Arkell, 1926 – See Arkell (1926): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. J.08315
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Arkell, W.J. 1929
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Magdalen Quarry, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Beckley Sand Member, Shell-cum-Pebble Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

ARKELL, W.J. 1926. Studies in the Corallian Lamellibranch fauna of Oxford, Berks and Wilts, I. Limidae. Geol. Mag., LXIII, 193-210. p. 201; pl. XX, figs 1, 3

ARKELL, W.J. 1931. A Monograph of British Corallian Lamellibranchia, part 3. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 105-132, pls IX-XII. pp. 130, 131; pl. XII, figs 4, 4a
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