GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47134 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Polyspinctites polysphinctus Buckman, SS.
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Polyspinctites polysphinctus Buckman, SS. – See Buckman, SS (1922): Paratype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM47134
Collector Buckman Collection. 1924
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1924
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Inferior Oolite - Parkinsoni Zone and zigzag subzone.
Location
Country England
Locality Grange Quarry - Broadwindsor - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Inferior Oolite Group
Biozone zigzag
Geological Age

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

References
References

Arkell, WJ. 1955. Bathonian Ammonites p.138

Arkell, WJ. 1957. Treatise Mollusca p.311 387-1

Buckman, SS. 1922. Type Ammonites plCCCXXII B
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