GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM44060 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Morrisiceras fornicatum (Buckman, SS.)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Morrisiceras fornicatum (Buckman, SS.) – See Spath, LF (1932)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM44060
Collector Golightly Collection
Donor or Associated Person Mrs Golightly.
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Great Oolite.
Location
Country England
Locality Pinfathings [label wrong should be Pinfarthings] - Minchinhampton - Glos.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Great Oolite Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1954. English Bathonian Ammonites - Mon.Palaeont Soc pl14.,fig11

Spath, LF. 1932. Medd.om.Gronland p.15 2
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