GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 6033 – Lectotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order Pholadomyida

Fossil Name Pholadomya saemanni Morris & Lycett
Type Status Lectotype
Name History

Pholadomya saemanni Morris & Lycett – See Cox, L.R. & Arkell, W.J. (1948): Lectotype

Pholadomya saemanni Morris & Lycett – See Woods, H. (1891)

Pholadomya saemanni Morris & Lycett – See Morris, J. & Lycett, J. (1855): Syntype

Pholadomya saemanni Lycett & Morris

Provenance
Registration No. J 6033
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 Gristhorpe, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Millepore Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Bajocian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 170.3 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 pl. xv fig.3 explanation

Morris, J. & Lycett, J. 1855. A monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite, chiefly from Minchinhampton and the coast of Yorkshire Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.123 pl. xv fig.3

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.88

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