GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47174 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Morrisiceras fornicatum (Buckman, SS.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Morrisiceras fornicatum (Buckman, SS.) – See Buckman, SS (1923): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM47174
Collector Buckman Collection. 1924
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1924
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Fuller's Earth Rock.
Location
Country England
Locality Dancing Hill - Sherborne - Dorset. [1" map borders 312 & 313].
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Fuller's Earth Rock Member
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1954. English Bathonian Ammonites - Mon.Palaeont Soc p.122-123 pl14.,fig12

Buckman, SS. 1923. Type Ammonites plCCCLXXVIII
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