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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM62449 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Gastropoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Amberleya fowleri Kellaway&Wilson
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Amberleya fowleri Kellaway&Wilson – See Kellaway & Wilson (1941): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. GSM62449
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Fowler Rev J 1940
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments wattonensis Beds
Location
Country England
Locality Gaul Hill - Lake Farm - Sherborne - Dorset.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Fuller's Earth Formation and Frome Clay Formation (Undifferentiated)
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Kellaway & Wilson. 1941. Proc Geol Assoc, Vol LII p.169-170 pl.10 fig 6

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P859232.JP2

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