GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM H 4230 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Actinopteria dilatata (Whidborne)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Actinopteria dilatata (Whidborne) – See Woods (1893b)

Actinopteria dilatata (Whidborne) – See Whidborne (1892): Syntype

Pterinea dilatata Whidborne – See Whidborne (1889b)

Provenance
Registration No. H 4230
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Whidborne, George Ferris (1845-1910)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Lummaton Quarries, St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Middle Devonian
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Mid Devonian Epoch (Devonian Period) (382.7 – 393.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Whidborne 1889 b. Geological Magazine vol. (3) vi p.79

Whidborne 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii (1):

Whidborne 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.64 pl.vii fig.3

Woods 1893 b. Geological Magazine n.s. dec. (3), vol. x p.113

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