GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM32031 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Pleuroceras spinatum buckmani (Moxon)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pleuroceras spinatum buckmani (Moxon)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM32031
Collector [ex Buckman, J.]
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS 1923
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Middle Lias - Marlstone Rock-bed (spinatum zone, hawskerense subzone). 1" 217.
Location
Country England
Locality Alderton Hill - Winchcombe - Gloucester.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (170.3 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman SS 1889 Q J G S Vol 45 (as Pleuroceras hawskerense (Young & Bird)) p.653

Buckman SS 1921 Type Ammonites (as Paltopleuroceras buckmanii (Moxon)) plate CXCIX B

Howarth MK 1958 British Amaltheidae p.39-41

Moxon C 1841 Illustrations of Characteristic fossils of British Strata (as Am buckmanii Moxon) plXXIV.,fig5
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