GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : OUM J.41497 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Scleractinia
Fossil Name Cyclolites cupuliformis Tomes, 1878
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cyclolites cupuliformis Tomes, 1878 – See Tomes (1878): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. J.41497
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Upper Pliensbachian
Location
Country England
Locality King's Sutton, Northamptonshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group, Middle Lias
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Pliensbachian Age (Jurassic Period) (182.7 – 190.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

TOMES, R.F. 1878. On the stratigraphical position of the corals of the Lias of the Midland and Western Counties of England and of South Wales. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., XXXIV (2), 179-198. p. 191; pl. 9, figs 2, 3
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