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Fossil specimen : OUM J.20075 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Mammalia

      Order Holotheria

Fossil Name Amphitherium prevostii (von Meyer, 1832)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Amphitherium prevostii (von Meyer, 1832) – See Butler & Clemens (2001)

Amphitherium prevostii (von Meyer, 1832) – See Simpson (1928)

Amphitherium oweni (Osborn, 1888) – See Goodrich (1894): Holotype

Amphitylus oweni Osborn, 1888 – See Osborn (1888): Holotype

Amphitherium prevostii – See Phillips (1871)

Amphitherium prevostii Owen – See Owen (1871)

Amphitherium prevostii Owen – See Owen (1846)

Amphitherium prevostii – See Owen (1845)

Provenance
Registration No. J.20075
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckland, W.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Right ramus with i1-3
Location
Country England
Locality Stonesfield, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Stonesfield Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

BUTLER, P.M. and CLEMENS, W.A. 2001. Dental morphology of the Jurassic holotherian mammal Amphitherium, with a discussion of the evolution of mammalian post-canine dental formulae. Palaeontology, 44 (1), 1-20. pp. 6 - 9, table 1; text-fig. 1 D, text-fig. 4, text-fig. 5 E

GOODRICH, E.S. 1894. On the fossil Mammalia from the Stonesfield Slate. Q. Jl. Micr. Sci. Soc., 35, 407-431, pl. 26. pp. 415, 432; pl. 26, fig. 3

OSBORN, H.F. 1888. Additional observations upon the structure and classification of the Mesozoic Mammalia. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, IX, 292-301. p. 192

OWEN, R. 1845. Odontography; or, A treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth . . . in the vertebrate animals. Ballière, London. pl. XCIX, fig. 1

OWEN, R. 1846. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds. Jan van Voorst, London, xlvi + 560 pp., 237 woodcuts. pp. 29, 46; fig. 15

OWEN, R. 1871. A Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-115, pls I-IV. p. 12; pl. 1, figs 23, 23 A

PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. p. 233; diag. LXXVIII

SIMPSON, G.G. 1928. Catalogue of Mesozoic Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), 215 pp., 12 pls. p. 114

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