GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM38016 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Vermidactylites vermis (Simpson)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Vermidactylites vermis (Simpson)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM38016
Collector British Geological Survey 1921
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Upper Lias (falcifer subzone).
Location
Country England
Locality Barrington - 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 SS 1927 Type Ammonites Vol VI Plate LXVIII.A
Scan Viewer
Rotate Zoom
 
Licence
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This site is hosted by the British Geological Survey and copyright on the website is with the JISC GB3D Type Fossils Online project partners.
Responsibility for the content of the site lies with the JISC GB3D Type Fossils Online project partners, not with the BGS.
Photographs and 3d models are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.
Terms of use are here.