GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM59397 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Brachiopoda

    Class Rhynchonellata

      Order Terebratulida
Fossil Name Ornithella boxensis Muir-Wood
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ornithella boxensis Muir-Wood – See Muir-Wood (1935): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM59397
Collector British Geological Survey
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Fuller's Earth Rock.
Location
Country England
Locality Box Tunnel - Wiltshire.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Fuller's Earth Rock Member
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Muir-Wood. 1935-1936. Pal Soc p.112 plV.,figs10a,b
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