Fossil specimen : OUM J.04328 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
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| Fossil Name | Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) variocostatus (Buckland, 1836) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) variocostatus (Buckland, 1836) – See Arkell (1957): Holotype Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) variocostatus (Buckland, 1836) – See Arkell (1947): Holotype Ammonites variocostatus Buckland, 1836 – See Healey (1905): Holotype Perisphinctes variocostatus (Buckland, 1836) – See Healey (1904): Holotype Ammonites variocostatus Buckland, 1836 – See Buckland (1836): Holotype |
| Registration No. | J.04328 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Buckland, W. |
| Held By |
 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Hawnes, 3 miles NE of Ampthill, 4 miles south of Bedford, Bedfordshire |
| Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
| Rock Unit | Drift from Ampthill Clay Formation |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.) |
| References | ARKELL, W.J. 1947. A Monograph on the Ammonites of the English Corallian beds, part XII. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 333-350, pls LXXI-LXXIV. p. 363; pl. LXXVI, figs 3 a, b ARKELL, W.J. 1957. Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea. 490 pp. p. L321; fig. 408, 9 a, b BUCKLAND, W. 1836. Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology: Bridgewater Treatise VI, II, 1-128, pls 1-69. p. 62; pl. 42, fig. 7 HEALEY, M. 1904. Notes on some Upper Jurassic ammonites, with special reference to specimens in the University Museum, Oxford : No. 1. Q. Jl. geol. Soc. Lond., LX (1), 54-64, pls IX-XII. p. 58; pl. XI HEALEY, M. 1905. Ammonites variocostatus Buckland, 1836. Palaeontologia Universalis, Centuria 1, Série I (3), 47-75. p. 56 a; figs T., T.a |
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