GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 5698 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Dicroloma elegans (Hudleston)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Dicroloma elegans (Hudleston) – See Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. (1950): Holotype

Alaria bicornis Blake – See Blake, J.F. (1905)

Alaria bispinosa var. elegans Hudleston – See Woods, H. (1891)

Alaria bispinosa var. elegans Hudleston – See Hudleston (1894): Undifferentiated Type

Provenance
Registration No. J 5698
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Leckenby, John (1814-1877)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Cornbrash
Biozone 4
Geological Age

Callovian Age (Jurassic Period) – Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (163.5 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Blake, J.F. 1905. A monograph of the fauna of the Cornbrash Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.63

Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. 1950. A survey of the mollusca of the British Great Oolite series Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.81

Hudleston 1894. Geological Magazine n.s. dec.3, vol. i p.152 pl. vi figs.8, 8 a

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.94

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