Fossil specimen : OUM K.00835 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
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| Fossil Name | Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum (J. Sowerby, 1817) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum (J. Sowerby, 1817) – See Kennedy et al. (1998): Holotype Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) rostratum (J. Sowerby, 1817) – See Spath (1932): Holotype Ammonites rostratus J. Sowerby, 1817 – See J. Sowerby (1817): Holotype |
| Registration No. | K.00835 |
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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 | Roke, near Benson, Oxfordshire |
| Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
| Rock Unit | Upper Greensand Formation, Malmstone |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.) |
| References | KENNEDY, W.J., COBBAN, W.A., GALE, A.S., HANCOCK, J.M. and LANDMAN, N.H. 1998. Ammonites from the Weno Formation, Albian) in northeast Texas. Am. Mus. Novit., 3236, 46 pp., 37 figs. p. 17; text-figs 9, 11 SOWERBY, J. 1817. The mineral conchology of Great Britain. Volume II (30). Printed by B. Meredith, London, pp. 155-166, pls CLXIX-CLXXIV. p. 163; pl. CLXXIII SPATH, L.F. 1932. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault. Volume II, part 9. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 379-410, pls XXXVII-XLII. pp. 400 - 402; text-fig. 136 |
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