GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS He4085 – Undifferentiated Type

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Bivalvia

      Order -
Fossil Name Carbonicola similis (Brown)
Type Status Undifferentiated Type
Name History

Carbonicola similis (Brown)
Provenance
Registration No. He4085
Collector Survey 1928
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures: above Trencherbone Mine. Modiolaris zone.Type is neotype
Location
Country England
Locality Astley Green Colliery,SE of Tyldesley,Lancashire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Mem Geol Surv 1 85 Manchester p.139 50B

Trueman & Weir 1947 Pal Soc Mon plx.,fig19
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