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Fossil specimen : BGS Zw174 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Oecotraustes bomfordi Arkell
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Oecotraustes bomfordi Arkell – See Arkell, WJ (1951): Paratype

Provenance
Registration No. Zw174
Collector Bomford Collection. 1935
Donor or Associated Person Brigadier G. Bomford. OBE. 1935
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Inferior Oolite - Zigzag Bed and Zone.
Location
Country England
Locality Allotment Quarry - Burton Bradstock - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone zigzag
Geological Age

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

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1951. Bathonian Ammonites - Mon.Palaeont.Soc p.69 pl7.,fig13

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P823684.JP2

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