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Fossil specimen : SM B 27162 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Cheloniceras (Cheloniceras) proteus Casey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cheloniceras (Cheloniceras) proteus Casey: Holotype

Cheloniceras

Provenance
Registration No. B 27162
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Hythe, Kent, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey, R. 1962. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.217 pl. xxxvi figs. 8 a-b

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