GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 12755 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Proveniella meyeri (Woods)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Proveniella meyeri (Woods) – See Casey, R. (1952): Holotype

Cyprina meyeri Woods – See Woods (1913c): Syntype
Provenance
Registration No. B 12755
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Meyer
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Sandown, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (113 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey, R. 1952. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. xxix p.140

Woods 1913 c. A monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchiata Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.427 pl. lxii figs.2 a-c
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