Fossil specimen : SM B 15241 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Australiceras gigas var. inscriptum Casey |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Australiceras gigas var. inscriptum Casey: Holotype Tropaeum gigas (Sowerby, J. de C.) Australiceras gigas (Sowerby, J. de C.) |
| Registration No. | B 15241 |
|---|---|
| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Wiltshire |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Atherfield, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Scaphites Bed |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (113 – 126.3 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Casey, R. 1961 for 1960. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand Palaeontographical Society Monographs (3): p.52 text-fig. 17 Spath 1930 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (10), vol. 5 (2): p.458 Whitehouse 1926. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum vol. viii (1): pp. 207-8 |
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