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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM113465 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Braunsina elegantula Buckman, SS.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Braunsina elegantula Buckman, SS. – See Buckman, SS (1904): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. GSM113465
Collector Buckman Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1906
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Cast only, the original is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts No: MCZ 2607.
Location
Country England
Locality Bradford Abbas - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Original specimen fig'd by Buckman, SS. 1904. Inferior Oolite Ammonites Supplement p.100 pl19.,figs1-3

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

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