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Fossil specimen : BMB BMB 007371 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Ammonites austeni Sharpe
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Ammonites austeni Sharpe
Provenance
Registration No. BMB 007371
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By Booth Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Clayton, West Sussex
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Chalk marl
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Late Cretaceous Epoch (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Sharpe, D. 1853-1855 Description of the fossil remains of Mollusca found in the Chalk of England, Part 1 Cephalopoda. Pal. Soc. Monograph. Sharpe, D, 1855, p.28-29, Plate xii, Fig.2.
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