GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS Zk4870 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Otohoplites icarus Casey
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Otohoplites icarus Casey
Provenance
Registration No. Zk4870
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Casey R 1946 – 1950
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Copt Point Folkestone Kent
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Folkestone Formation
Biozone mammillatum
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Aptian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 126.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Casey. 1965. Mon Palaeont Soc Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand p.498 LXXXIV fig 5 187k
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