New Zealand, Northland, Bay of Islands, Urupukapuka Island, washed up in shell sand, collected 7th November 2006, ex coll. M.A. Wotton. Image by Joop Trausel and Frans Slieker
Summary[edit] Description: Bittium reticulatum, adult specimen; 'Guide fossil' for the Eemian interglacial; From Eemian deposits in the type area of the Eemian interglacial in The Netherlands; figured by the person who introduced the Eemian stage. Date: 1886 (scan dates from 2007). Source: 'Harting, P. (1886) Het Eemdal en het Eemstelsel. Album der Natuur,1886: 95-100.'. Author: P. Harting (scan by Tom Meijer). Permission (Reusing this file): Author died more than 70 years ago.