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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47565 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Pectinatites (Pectinatites) rarescens Buckman S
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pectinatites (Pectinatites) rarescens Buckman S

Wheatleyites rarescens Buckman S

Provenance
Registration No. GSM47565
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckman S 1926
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Wheatley Sands Paravirgatitan [wheatleyites]
Location
Country England
Locality Wheatley Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Kimmeridge Clay Formation
Biozone pectinatus
Geological Age

Kimmeridgian Age (Jurassic Period) (152.1 – 157.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Cope. 1978. Palaeontology p.482

Not Known. Type Ammonites DLXI A

Available Images

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/BGS/P836837.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P837826.JP2

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