GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47561 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Echioceras iridescens Trueman & Williams
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Echioceras iridescens Trueman & Williams
Provenance
Registration No. GSM47561
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, S. 1926
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Lower Lias (raricostatum zone, raricostatoides subzone).
Location
Country England
Locality Radstock Grove - 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

Buckman S 1925 Type Ammonites Vol V Pl DLIV

Transacation Royal Society of Edinburgh 1925 Vol LIII p.715
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