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Fossil specimen : BGS Y3332 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Otoites contractus spaniopleurus Westermann
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Otoites contractus spaniopleurus Westermann – See Westermann (1954): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. Y3332
Collector Hudleston Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Hudleston, WH. 1920
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Remove
Location
Country England
Locality Dundry - Somerset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone sauzei
Geological Age

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

References
References

Westermann, GEG. 1954. Beih.Geol.Jahb p.95-96 pl2.,fig3

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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