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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM108161 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Deshayesites grapesi Casey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Deshayesites grapesi Casey

Provenance
Registration No. GSM108161
Collector Casey Dr R
Donor or Associated Person Casey Dr R 1963
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Sandown Bay - Isle of Wight.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Atherfield Clay Formation, 15' above Perna Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (113 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey. 1964. Mon Palaeont Soc Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand p.320 Pl LIII fig 5a b c

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P837382.JP2

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/BGS/P837385.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P837941.JP2

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