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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM99282 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Megatyloceras vastum Casey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Megatyloceras vastum Casey – See Casey (1961)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM99282
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Casey R 1961
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Lowe Lobster Beds
Location
Country England
Locality Atherfield
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. 1961. Mon Pal Soc p.191-193 pl.XXXIII fig 2 text-fig.58a b

Available Images

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P859415.JP2

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