GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM9944 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Porifera

    Class -

      Order -
Fossil Name Coeloscyphia sulcata Tate
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Coeloscyphia sulcata Tate
Provenance
Registration No. GSM9944
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Tate Collection 1872
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Glauconitic chalk
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Island Magee, Antrim
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Chalk Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Maastrichtian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Cenomanian Age (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hinde G J. 1883. Brit Mus Nat Hist Cat Foss Sponges p.118 XXIX fig 1 1a

Tate. 1865. Quart Journ Geol Soc p.43-44 5 fig 5
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