GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM113512 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Welschia obtusiformis Buckman, SS.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Welschia obtusiformis Buckman, SS. – See Buckman, SS (1899): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM113512
Collector Buckman Collection
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1906
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Note: this is cast only, the original is in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. No:MCZ 2531.
Location
Country England
Locality Chideock Hill - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) – Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 174.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Original specimen fig'd by Buckman, SS. 1899. Inferior Oolite Ammonites Supplement pl4.,figs1-3
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