GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM72210 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Amoeboceras (Prionodoceras) marstonense Spath
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Amoeboceras (Prionodoceras) marstonense Spath – See Spath (1935): Holotype
Provenance
Registration No. GSM72210
Collector Spath Collection. 1943
Donor or Associated Person Spath, LF. 1943
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Corallian - [Bimammatum zone]; Pseudocordata anglica zone;[Ringsteadia subzone]. (?)
Location
Country England
Locality Marston - Wiltshire.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Corallian Group
Biozone Pseudocordata
Geological Age

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

References
References

Fig'd & Des'd Spath. 1935. Med om Gron p.20 plIV.,fig5

Sykes & Callomon. 1979. Palaeontology p.886 pl119.,fig8
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