GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : SM J 3310 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order -
Fossil Name Galilaeites indigestus Buckman
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Galilaeites indigestus Buckman – See Buckman, S.S. (1922): Holotype

Kepplerites gowerianum Phillips non Sowerby – See Buckman (1913)

Ammonites gowerianus Sowerby, J. de C. – See Leckenby (1859)
Provenance
Registration No. J 3310
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Leckenby, John (1814-1877)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Red Cliff, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Kellaways Rock
Biozone opimus
Geological Age

Callovian Age (Jurassic Period) (163.5 – 166.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Buckman 1913. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxix p.154

Buckman, S.S. 1922. Yorkshire type ammonites vol. iv pl. cccix figs.1-2 a

Leckenby 1859. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xv p.9 pl. i figs.1 b-d

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.122
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