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Fossil specimen : SM J 12314 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Peltoceras murrayanum (Leckenby ex Simpson ms.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Peltoceras murrayanum (Leckenby ex Simpson ms.): Holotype

Ammonites murrayanus Simpson ms.

Ammonites murrayanus Simpson

Provenance
Registration No. J 12314
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Leckenby, John (1814-1877)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Castle Rock, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Kellaways Rock (Kellaway Rock)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Callovian Age (Jurassic Period) (163.5 – 166.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman 1913. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxix (4): p.163

Leckenby 1859. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xv (1):

Leckenby 1859. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xv (2): p.10

Available Images

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