Fossil specimen : SM J 12190 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
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| Fossil Name | Goliathiceras hyperbolicum (Leckenby) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Goliathiceras hyperbolicum (Leckenby) Phlycticeras hyperbolicum (Leckenby ex Simpson ms.) Ammonites hyperbolicus Leckenby ex Simpson ms.: Holotype Ammonites hyperbolicus Leckenby |
| Registration No. | J 12190 |
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| 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 |
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| Locality | Red Cliff, Cayton Bay, Scarborough, Yorkshire coast, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Calcareous Grit |
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| Biozone | mariae |
| Geological Age |
Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Arkell, W.J. 1948. A monograph on the ammonites of the English corallian beds Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): p.397 text-fig. 137 Leckenby 1859. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xv (2): p.12 pl. ii figs. 4 a-b |
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