GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 9230 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -
Fossil Name Purpuroidea portlandica Hudleston
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Purpuroidea portlandica Hudleston – See Hudleston (1881): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. B 9230
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Hudleston (ne Simpson), Wilfred Huddleston
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Ashendon, Buckinghamshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Portland Limestone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Tithonian Age (Jurassic Period) (145 – 152.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hudleston 1881. Geological Magazine n.s. dec.2, vol. viii p.387 pl. xi figs.1 a, b
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