GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM30456 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Kepplerites (Gowericeras) gowerianus (Sowerby)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Kepplerites (Gowericeras) gowerianus (Sowerby)

Gowericeras metorchum Buckman S
Provenance
Registration No. GSM30456
Collector no history
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Chippenham Wiltshire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Kellaways Formation
Biozone koenigi
Geological Age

Callovian Age (Jurassic Period) (163.5 – 166.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman. 1921. Type Ammonites CCLIV

Meledina. 1977. see publication slip with specimen p.175

Roman. 1938. Ammonites jurassiques et Cretacees p.257

Spath. 1932. Meddr Gronland 87 no 7 p.90

Tintant. 1963. Publs Univ Dijon p.70
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