Fossil specimen : SM J 18225 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
|---|---|
| Fossil Name | Apoderoceras aculeatum (Simpson) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Apoderoceras aculeatum (Simpson) Apoderoceras decussatum (Simpson) Ammonites decussatus Simpson: Holotype Eoderoceras (Eoderoceras) aculeatum (Simpson) Coeloceras leckenbyi (Wright) Ammonites (Aegoceras) leckenbyi Wright Aegoceras leckenbyi Wright: Syntype Ammonites decussatus Simpson |
| Registration No. | J 18225 |
|---|---|
| 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 | Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, OTHER LOCALITY GIVEN:, Lyme Regis, Dorset, OTHER LOCALITY GIVEN:, Whitby, Yorkshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Lower Lias |
|---|---|
| Biozone | bispinigerum |
| Geological Age |
Early Jurassic Epoch (Jurassic Period) (174.1 – 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 (5): pp.15, 22, 35 Donovan, D.T. 1954. Synoptic supplement to T. Wright's 'Monograph on the lias ammonites of the British Islands'(1878-86) Palaeontographical Society Monographs (4): Howarth 1962. Palaeontology vol. v (7): p.109 pl.16 figs.1 a-b Howarth 1962. Palaeontology vol. v (6): p.109 Simpson, M. 1843. A monograph of the Ammonites of the Yorkshire Lias (7): p.25 Simpson, M. 1855. The fossils of the Yorkshire Lias 1st edition (7): p.63 Simpson, M. 1884. The fossils of the Yorkshire Lias 2nd. edition (and 1942 3rd. ed.) (7): p.95 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 (3): p.123 Wright, T. 1880 - 1882. Monograph on the Lias ammonites of the British Islands Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.344 (1882) pl. xxx figs.4-7 (1880) |
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