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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM37923 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Gastrioceras lineatum Wright
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Gastrioceras lineatum Wright

Provenance
Registration No. GSM37923
Collector survey 1924
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments R2,Formerly SH 3115A
Location
Country England
Locality Stream,NW of Helmshore Station,Lancashire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Millstone Grit Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Namurian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (319 – 329 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Bashkirian Age – Serpukhovian Age ]

References
References

Wright 1926 Summer Prog for 1925 pl.XII,fig.8

Wright 1927 Geology of Rossendale Mem Geol Surv p.116 pl.VI fig.8

Available Images

High resolution photographs

/BGS/P818453.JP2

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/BGS/P818460.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P819267.JP2

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