Fossil specimen : SM B 19578 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Bivalvia Order Veneroida |
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| Fossil Name | Cyprina sedgwickii (Walker) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Cyprina sedgwickii (Walker) – See Woods (1907) Cyprina sedgwickii (Walker) – See Keeping (1883) Sphaera sedgwickii Walker – See Walker (1866): Holotype |
| Registration No. | B 19578 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Walker, John Francis (d.1907) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Potton, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Greensand |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Keeping 1883. The fossils and palaeontological affinities of the Neocomian deposits of Upware and Brickhill p.123 Walker 1866. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (3) vol. xviii p.386 pl. xiii figs.1-2 Woods 1907. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.133 pl. xx figs.1 a-b |
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