GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM37298 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Orthildaites orthus Buckman SS
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Orthildaites orthus Buckman SS
Provenance
Registration No. GSM37298
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS 1925
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Upper Lias (serpentinum zone, falciferum subzone). 1" 327. Type is Genoholotype
Location
Country England
Locality Down Cliff - Chideock - Dorset.
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

Arkell WJ et al 1957 Treatise Mollusca 4 p.259 Fig 291-1

Buckman SS 1923 Type Ammonites Vol V Plate CDXLIV
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