GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM9044 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Plagiostoma educta (Whidborne)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Plagiostoma educta (Whidborne) – See Whidborne (1883): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM9044
Collector British Geological Survey
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Inferior Oolite - Lower Trigonia Grit.
Location
Country England
Locality Leckhampton - Glos.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Cox, LR. 1943. Proc Malac Soc p.161 12 23a,b,c

Whidborne, Rev. GF. 1883. Q.J.G.S p.506 17 4,4a
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