GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM25484 –

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) subwartaeformis Arkell
Type Status
Name History

Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) subwartaeformis Arkell – See Selfeld (1914)

Perisphinctes (Divisosphinctes) sp nov [aff] grossouvrei-bifurcatus gp
Provenance
Registration No. GSM25484
Collector Cunnington Collection. 1875
Donor or Associated Person Cunnington, W. 1875
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Corallian - Coral Rag - Pseudocordata anglica zone.
Location
Country England
Locality Westbury Works - 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

Arkell, WJ. Jurassic System p.376-378

Arkell, WJ. Mon Pal Soc - Corallian Ammonites p.367 plLXXVII.,figs5a,b

Cited by Selfeld. 1914. 7 Jahresbericht des Niedarsachsischen geologischen Vereins zu Hanover. (Geologische Abteling der Naturhistorishen, Gesellschaft.) p.249
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