GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM47843 –

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida

Fossil Name Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) ouatius (Buckman, SS.)
Type Status
Name History

Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) ouatius (Buckman, SS.)

Otosphinctes ouatius Buckman, SS. – See Buckman, SS (1926)

Provenance
Registration No. GSM47843
Collector Buckman Collection. 1927
Donor or Associated Person Buckman, SS. 1927
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Corallian - Plicatilis [upper cordatum] zone.
Location
Country England
Locality Cowley - near Industrial Schools - Oxford.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Corallian Group
Biozone Cordatum
Geological Age

Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Arkell, WJ. Mon Pal Soc - Corallian Ammonites plXVIII.,figs5a-g

Arkell, WJ. Mon Pal Soc - Corallian Ammonites p.93

Buckman, SS. 1926. Type Ammonites plDCXLIX

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