GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 3844 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) gamelai Arkell
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) gamelai Arkell – See Arkell, W.J. (1947c): Holotype

Perisphinctes gamlingayensis Arkell
Provenance
Registration No. J 3844
Collector Name not available
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 Gamlingay (old brick pit), Cambridgeshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ampthill Clay
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Late Jurassic Epoch (Jurassic Period) (145 – 163.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, W.J. 1947 c. A monograph on the ammonites of the English corallian beds Palaeontographical Society Monographs p.358 pl. lxxv fig.5
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