GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : OUM K.00588 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Pectinida
Fossil Name Pecten beaveri J. Sowerby, 1817
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pecten beaveri J. Sowerby, 1817 – See J. Sowerby (1817): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. K.00588
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckland, W., ex Beaver, Rev.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Rev. Beaver's quarry, Childrey, Berkshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Chalk Group, Chalk Marl
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Cenomanian Age (Cretaceous Period) (93.9 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

SOWERBY, J. 1817. The mineral conchology of Great Britain. Volume II (28). Printed by B. Meredith, London, pp. 129-140, pls CLVII-CLXII. p. 131; pl. CLVIII
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