GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 756 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Cnidaria

    Class Anthozoa

      Order Scleractinia
Fossil Name Parasmilia monilis Duncan
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Parasmilia monilis Duncan – See Duncan (1896): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. B 756
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Wiltshire
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Gravesend, Kent, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Chalk
Biozone M. coranguinum
Geological Age

Maastrichtian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Turonian Age (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 93.9 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Duncan 1896. A monograph of the British fossil corals Palaeontographical Society Monographs pt. ii no. 1 p.12 pl. v figs. 4-7
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