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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47168 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Tulites (Rugierites) polypleurus (Buckman, SS.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Tulites (Rugierites) polypleurus (Buckman, SS.) – See Buckman, SS (1921)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM47168
Collector Buckman Collection. 1924
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1924
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Fuller's Earth Rock.
Location
Country England
Locality Troll or Trill Quarry - Thornford - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Fuller's Earth Rock Member
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1954. Bathonian Ammonites p.104-105

Buckman, SS. 1921. Type Ammonites p.47

Buckman, SS. 1923. Type Ammonites plCCCLIX

Hahn, W. 1971. Jh.Geol.Landesamt. Baden-Wurttemberg p.81-82

Roman. 1938. Ammonites jurassiques et cretacees p.204

Stephanov, J. 1963. Trudove Varkhu Geol Bulgariya p.181

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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