GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM A 16591 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Gosseletia tawneyi Reed
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Gosseletia tawneyi Reed – See Reed, F.R.C. (1917b): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. A 16591
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Gardiner, Charles Irving (1868-1940)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country Wales
Locality Usk Inlier, Llanbadoc Church, Monmouthshire, Wales
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ludlow Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Ludlow Epoch (Silurian Period) (423.6 – 427.4 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Reed, F.R.C. 1917 b. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club vol. xix for 1916 p.163 pl. vii figs.2, 2 a
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