GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM53004 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Carbonicola obliqua Wright
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Carbonicola obliqua Wright
Provenance
Registration No. GSM53004
Collector survey
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Above Bassy Mine 20-30ft below Lower Mountain Mine.Formerly Hs 1829
Location
Country England
Locality Ravenshead Brickwork Quarry Holland Moor
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone lenisulcata
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Eagar 1947 Phil Trans Roy Soc Ser B no 593vol 233

Trueman & Weir 1947 Pal Soc Mon pl.XII,fig.17

Wright WB 1934 Summ Prog for1933 2 II p.15 fig.4A-C
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