GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BRSUG 23760 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Reptilia

      Order Rhynchocephalia
Fossil Name Diphydontosaurus avonis Whiteside
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Diphydontosaurus avonis Whiteside
Provenance
Registration No. 23760
Collector Whiteside, D.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By University of Bristol Geology Collection
Comments right dentary
Location
Country England
Locality Tytherington Quarry, nr. Bristol
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Rhaetian
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (201.3 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Whiteside, D. 1986. The head skeleton of the Rhaetian Sphenodontid Diphydontosaurus avonis gen et sp. Nov. and the modernising of a living fossil. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B312, 379-430

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