GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 81 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order -

Fossil Name Cantabrigites cantabrigense Spath
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Cantabrigites cantabrigense Spath – See Kennedy, W.J. & Wright, C.W. (1981): Holotype

Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) cantabrigense Spath – See Spath (1932): Holotype

Ammonites rostratus (Sowerby J.) – See Seeley, H.G. (1865b)

Provenance
Registration No. B 81
Collector Conybeare, J.W. 1884
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Barrington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Cambridge Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Kennedy, W.J. & Wright, C.W. 1981. Euhystrichoceras and Algericeras, the last mortoniceratine Ammonites Palaeontology vol. 24 p.433 pl.60 figs.36-38

Seeley, H.G. 1865 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 3, vol. xvi p.226

Spath 1932. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault Palaeontographical Society Monographs pl. xli figs. 3 a, b

Spath 1933 a. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault Palaeontographical Society Monographs vol. ii p.438

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