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Fossil specimen : OUM J.15397 – Neotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Belemnitida

Fossil Name Acrocoelites (Odontobelus) vulgaris (Young & Bird, 1822)
Type Status Neotype
Name History

Acrocoelites (Odontobelus) vulgaris (Young & Bird, 1822) – See Doyle (1990): Neotype

Belemnites vulgaris Young & Bird, 1822 – See Phillips (1867)

Provenance
Registration No. J.15397
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Phillips, J.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Whitby, North Yorkshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Alum Shale Member
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Toarcian Age (Jurassic Period) (174.1 – 182.7 Ma B.P.)

References
References

DOYLE, P. 1990. The British Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) belemnites, part 1. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-49, pls 1-17. p. 44

PHILLIPS, J. 1867. A Monograph of British Belemnitidae: Jurassic, part 3. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 53-88, pls VIII-XX. p. 75; pl. XVI, fig. 41

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/OUMNH/P855889.jp2

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