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Fossil specimen : OUM J.23948 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Echinoidea

      Order Hemicidaroida
Fossil Name Hemicidaris stokesii Wright, 1857
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Hemicidaris stokesii Wright, 1857 – See Wright (1857): Holotype

Cidaris – See Stokes (1829)
Provenance
Registration No. J.23948
Collector Stokes, C.
Donor or Associated Person Stokes, C.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Stonesfield, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Stonesfield Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

STOKES, C. 1829. Explanatory of three drawings of Echini. Trans. geol. Soc. Lond., New Series 2, II, 406, pl. XLV. p. 406; lign. 1

WRIGHT, T. 1857. Monograph on the British fossil Echinodermata of the Oolitic Formations:- The Echinoidea, part 1. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), I, 1-154, pls I-X. p. 76, 77; pl. III, fig. 3
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