GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM52447 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order Pleurotomarioidea
Fossil Name Pleurotomaria thomsoni Tate
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pleurotomaria thomsoni Tate
Provenance
Registration No. GSM52447
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Portlock Collection 1843
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments White Limestone
Location
Country Northern Ireland
Locality Tamlaght Co Derry
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

Cox. 1960. Bull Brit Mus Nat Hist p.420

Portlock. 1843. Geol Dep Londonderry p.421

Tate. 1865. QJGS p.37 XXI

Woods. 1896. QJGS p.89 lii
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