GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47839 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Witchellia rubra (Buckman, SS.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Witchellia rubra (Buckman, SS.) – See Buckman, SS (1926): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM47839
Collector Buckman Collection.
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1902
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Frogden Quarry - Oborne - Somerset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone laeviuscula
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman, SS. 1926. Type Ammonites plDCXLII (642)

Morton, N. 1975. Palaeontology p.60-61
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