GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM24955 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Pleurolytoceras leckenbyi (Lycett)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pleurolytoceras leckenbyi (Lycett) – See Lycett, J (1857): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM24955
Collector Lycett Collection 1867
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Frocester Hill - Gloucestershire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group
Biozone Aalensis
Geological Age

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

References
References

Donovan, DT. 1954. Revision of Wright p.49

Lycett, J. 1857. Cotteswold Hills 2 7

Wright, T. 1883. Lias Ammonites p.415-416 75 4,5
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