GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM51479 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Perna oxoniensis (left valve) Paris
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Perna oxoniensis (left valve) Paris – See Paris, ET (1911): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM51479
Collector Richardson, L. Collection
Donor or Associated Person Richardson, L. 1931
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Mid Jurassic - Perna Bed.
Location
Country England
Locality Bell-Inn (or Bell Inn) Quarry - Enstone - Oxfordshire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Jurassic Rocks (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Jurassic Period (Jurassic Period) (145 – 201.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Paris, ET. 1911. Proc Cotteswold Club XXVII.,figs1c,d
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