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Fossil specimen : BGS Geol.Soc.Coll.2290 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Dufrenoyia furcata (Sowerby)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Dufrenoyia furcata (Sowerby)

Provenance
Registration No. Geol.Soc.Coll.2290
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Geol Soc Coll (Fitton) 1911
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Hythe Kent
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey. 1964. Mon Palaeont Soc Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand p.379-380 pl LXII fig 2a b

Spath. 1930. Ann Mag Nat Hist p.435

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

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