GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM8407 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -
Fossil Name Purpuroidea insignis (Lycett) Benecke
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Purpuroidea insignis (Lycett) Benecke – See Lycett, J (1863): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM8407
Collector Lycett Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Lycett, J. 1867
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Oolite.
Location
Country England
Locality Minchinhampton - Glos.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Great Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Cox & Arkell. 1950. Mollusca from the GO Palaeont Soc p.67

Lycett, J. 1857. Cotteswold Hills pl7.,figs8a,b

Lycett, J. 1863. Mollusca from the GO Suppl Mon Palaeont Soc p.6 pl31.,fig2
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