GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : OUM J.02248 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Amaltheus stokesi (J. Sowerby, 1818)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Amaltheus stokesi (J. Sowerby, 1818) – See Howarth (1958): Holotype

Ammonites stokesi J. Sowerby, 1818 – See J. Sowerby (1818): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. J.02248
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckland, W.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Upper Pliensbachian
Location
Country England
Locality Eype Mouth, Bridport, Dorset
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group, Marl Bed, Middle Lias
Biozone Amaltheus margaritatus
Geological Age

Pliensbachian Age (Jurassic Period) (182.7 – 190.8 Ma B.P.)

References
References

HOWARTH, M.K. 1958. A Monograph of the ammonites of the Liassic Family Amaltheidae in Britain. part I. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-26, pls. I-IV. p. 3; pl. I, figs 7 a, b

SOWERBY, J. 1818. The mineral conchology of Great Britain. Volume II (33). Printed by B. Meredith, London, pp. 195-210, pls CLXXXVII-CXCII. p. 205; pl. CXCI
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