GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 37301 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Asteroidea

      Order Forcipulatida
Fossil Name Uraster carinatus Wright
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Uraster carinatus Wright – See Woods, H. (1891)

Uraster carinatus Wright – See Wright, T. (1863): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. J 37301
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 Boulby, Bowlby, Staithes, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Marlstone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Early Jurassic Epoch (Jurassic Period) (174.1 – 201.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

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.36

Wright, T. 1863. Monograph of the British fossil Echinodermata of the Oolitic formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.101 pl. ii fig.1
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