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Fossil specimen : OUM J.03541 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Belemnitida

Fossil Name Belemnites bucklandi Phillips, 1867
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Belemnites bucklandi Phillips, 1867 – See Powell & Edmonds (1978): Holotype

Belemnites bucklandi Phillips, 1867 – See Phillips (1867): Holotype

Belemnites ovalis – See Buckland (1836)

Provenance
Registration No. J.03541
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Philpot, E. 1880
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments With ink sac
Location
Country England
Locality Lyme Regis, Dorset
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Blue Lias Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Sinemurian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (190.8 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

BUCKLAND, W. 1836. Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology: Bridgewater Treatise VI, II, 1-128, pls 1-69. p. 69; pl. 44', figs 7, 8

PHILLIPS, J. 1867. A Monograph of British Belemnitidae: Jurassic, part 3. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 53-88, pls VIII-XX. p. 53; pl. 8, fig. 18, l'

POWELL, H.P. and EDMONDS, J.M. 1978. List of Type-fossils in the Philpot Collection, Oxford University Museum. Proc. Dorset nat. Hist. archaeol. Soc, 98 (for 1976), 48-53. p. 49

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