GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM B 27096 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Deshayesites wiltshirei Casey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Deshayesites wiltshirei Casey – See Casey, R. (1964): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. B 27096
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Wiltshire
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Atherfield, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Scaphites Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (113 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey, R. 1964 for 1963. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.305 pl. xlvi figs. 8 a-b
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