GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 5799 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -

Fossil Name Oshae (Liostrea) wiltonensis Lycett
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Oshae (Liostrea) wiltonensis Lycett – See Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. (1950)

Ostrea (Liostrea) wiltonensis Lycett – See Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. (1948): Lectotype

Ostrea wiltonensis Lycett – See Woods, H. (1891)

Ostrea wiltonensis Lycett – See Lycett, J. (1863): Undifferentiated Type

Provenance
Registration No. J 5799
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Walton
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Pound Hill, Wiltshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Forest Marble
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. 1948. A survey of the mollusca of the British Great Oolite series Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.19

Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. 1950. A survey of the mollusca of the British Great Oolite series Palaeontographical Society Monographs explanation of Lycett's pl. xxxiv

Lycett, J. 1863. A supplementary monograph on the Mollusca from the Stonesfield Slate, Great Oolite, Forest Marble, and Cornbrash Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.108 pl. xxxiv fig.1

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.85

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