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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM32018 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Morrisiceras sphaera Buckman, SS.
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Morrisiceras sphaera Buckman, SS. – See Buckman, SS (1893): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM32018
Collector Buckman Collection. 1922
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1922
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Fuller's Earth Rock.
Location
Country England
Locality Milborne Wick - Somerset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Fuller's Earth Rock Member
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1954. Bathonian Ammonites p.121-122 39

Buckman, SS. 1893. Q.J.G.S. London p.43

Buckman, SS. 1894. Inferior Oolite Ammonites p.440

Buckman, SS. 1920. Type Ammonites plCLXVII

Buckman, SS. 1921. Type Ammonites p.47

Roman. 1938. Ammonites jurassiques et cretacees p.204

Stephanov, J. 1963. Trudove Varkhu Geol.Bulg.Pal p.187-188

Torrens, HS. 1971. Jb.Geol.Landesamt. Baden-Wurttemberg p.86-88
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