GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS h117 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Plagiostoma overstonesis Cox
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Plagiostoma overstonesis Cox – See Cox, LR (1943): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. h117
Collector British Geological Survey 1869
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Inferior OOlite - Northampton Sands.
Location
Country England
Locality Overstone - Northampton.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Northampton Sand Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (170.3 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cox, LR. 1943. Proc Malac Soc p.164 pl15.,fig31
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