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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM49280 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Maconiceras vigoense Buckman, S.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Maconiceras vigoense Buckman, S. – See Buckman S (1926)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM49280
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, S. 1928
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Type is Genoholotype
Location
Country England
Locality Vigo Brickyard - Northampton.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group
Biozone Bifrons
Geological Age

Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (170.3 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, WJ.et al. 1957. Treatise Mollusca p.258 Fig 290-2a,b

Buckman S. 1926. Type Ammonites DCLXXXIV

Howarth, MK. Mon Pal Soc - Hildoceatildae in the Lower Jurassic pl21.,fig6

Available Images

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