GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM9047 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

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

Plagiostoma oepybolum (Whidborne) – See Whidborne (1883): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM9047
Collector Day, EH. Collection
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Burstock Grange - Broadminster - Dorset.
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.158

Whidborne, Rev. GF. 1883. Q.J.G.S 17 1
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