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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE2421 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Leptechioceras subobsoletum Buckman S
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Leptechioceras subobsoletum Buckman S – See Buckman (1913): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. GSE2421
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Raasay,Inverness-shire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Lias (Undifferentiated)
Biozone raricostatum
Geological Age

Pliensbachian Age (Jurassic Period) – Hettangian Age (Jurassic Period) (182.7 – 201.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman S. 1913-1919. Yorks Type Ammonites, Vol 2 p.96

Gethy TA. 1973. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions Paper 63 pl.2 fig 9

Available Images

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