GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 4768 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Gervillia whidbornei Paris
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Gervillia whidbornei Paris – See Paris, E.T. (1911): Lectotype

Gervillia intermedia Whidborne – See Whidborne (1883b): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 4768
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 Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite
Biozone discitae
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Paris, E.T. 1911. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club vol. xvii p.251 fig.1

Whidborne 1883 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxix p.516 pl. xvi fig.9

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.76

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