GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 34965 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Echinoidea

      Order Cassiduloida
Fossil Name Clypeus plotii Leske
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Clypeus plotii Leske

Clypeus sinuatus (Linné) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Clypeus excentricus McCoy – See McCoy (1848a): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. J 34965
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

McCoy 1848 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History n. ser. (2) ii p.417

McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology p.64

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.31
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