GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS Geol.Soc.Coll.2288 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Parahoplites simmsi (Forbes)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Parahoplites simmsi (Forbes)

Hypacanthoplites simmsi (Forbes)
Provenance
Registration No. Geol.Soc.Coll.2288
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Geol Soc 1911
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Hythe Kent
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Greensand Group
Biozone subnodosocostatum
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey R. 1965. Mon Pal Soc Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand p.452 LXXV fig 3 169c

Forbes. 1845. QJGS p.353

Spath LF. 1930. Ann Mag Nat Hist p.440 XIV figs 1a b
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