GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS R3917 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Plagiostoma nettlehamense (Cox)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Plagiostoma nettlehamense (Cox) – See Cox, LR (1943): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. R3917
Collector British Geological Survey 1883
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Quarry - Nettleham - Lincoln.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lincolnshire Limestone Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bajocian Age (Jurassic Period) (168.3 – 170.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cox, LR. 1943. Proc Malac Soc p.167-168 pl17.,figs44a,b
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