GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM85017 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Psiloceras (Caloceras) bloomfieldense Donovan
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Psiloceras (Caloceras) bloomfieldense Donovan
Provenance
Registration No. GSM85017
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Donovan, DT. (B.Sc. Ph.D. FGS) 1952
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Lower Lias (liasicus zone, laqueus subzone).
Location
Country England
Locality Bloomfield Quarry - Farmborough - Somerset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (170.3 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Donovan 1952 Ann Mag Nat Hist Series 12 Vol 5 p.640 pl22.,fig4
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