GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM72211 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

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

Amoeboceras (Prionodoceras) leucum (Spath)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM72211
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Spath LF 1943
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Drift ex Ampthill Clay
Location
Country England
Locality Cambridgeshire
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Ampthill Clay Formation
Biozone serratum
Geological Age

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

References
References

Spath. 1935. Medd om Gronland p.22 V fig 3

Sykes & Callomon. 1979. Palaeontology p.855
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