Fossil specimen : SM J 5139 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
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| Fossil Name | Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) wrighti (Spath) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) wrighti (Spath): Holotype Oistoceras wrighti Spath Oistoceras wrighti Spath: Holotype Oistoceras curvicornum (Wright non Schlönbach) Oistoceras Ammonites (Aegoceras) curvicornus Schloenbach Aegoceras curvicorne Schlönbach |
| Registration No. | J 5139 |
|---|---|
| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Leckenby, John (1814-1877) |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
|---|---|
| Locality | Charmouth, Dorset, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Limestone |
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| Biozone | figulinum |
| Geological Age |
Mid Jurassic Epoch (Jurassic Period) – Early Jurassic Epoch (Jurassic Period) (163.5 – 201.3 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Donovan, D.T. 1954. Synoptic supplement to T. Wright's 'Monograph on the lias ammonites of the British Islands'(1878-86) Palaeontographical Society Monographs (6): pp.16, 21,35 Spath 1936 c. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xcii (4): p.451 Spath 1938. A catalogue of the ammonites of the Liassic family Liparoceratidae in the British Museum (Natural History) (5): p.166 Trueman, A.E. 1919 for 1918. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxxiv (3): p.286 Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (2): p.122 Wright, T. 1880 - 1882. Monograph on the Lias ammonites of the British Islands Palaeontographical Society Monographs (1): p.377 (1882) pl. xxxi figs.3-4 (1880) |
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