GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 25683 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order -
Fossil Name Cyclothyris lepida Owen
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cyclothyris lepida Owen – See Owen (1962): Holotype

Rhynchonella latissima (Sowerby, J. de C.) – See Keeping (1883)
Provenance
Registration No. B 25683
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Keeping 1883. The fossils and palaeontological affinities of the Neocomian deposits of Upware and Brickhill p.162

Owen 1962. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology vol. vii p.56 pl.4 fig.10 a-c
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