Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47159 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Cephalopoda Order Ammonitida |
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| Fossil Name | Morphoceras (Polysphinctites) replicatum (Buckman, S.S.) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Morphoceras (Polysphinctites) replicatum (Buckman, S.S.) – See Buckman, S.S (1922): Holotype |
| Registration No. | GSM47159 |
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| Collector | Buckman Collection. 1924 |
| Donor or Associated Person | Buckman, S.S. 1924 |
| Held By |
 British Geological Survey
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| Comments | Inferior Oolite, Parkinsoni Zone, Zigzag Subzone. GSM 47159 is present with a plaster cast of the whole specimen. The cast was made before the specimen was cut in median transverse section at sedwick Museum, Cambridge in March 1953. |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Burton Bradstock - Dorset. |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Inferior Oolite Group |
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| Biozone | zigzag |
| Geological Age |
Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Arkell. 1955. Bathonian Ammonites, Mon. Palaeont.Soc p.136-137 pl16.,figs 10a,b. fig, 50 Buckman, S.S. 1922. Type Ammonites pl359 |
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