GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM1879 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Diploceras equicostatum Spath
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Diploceras equicostatum Spath
Provenance
Registration No. GSM1879
Collector Price Collection 1886
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Folkestone
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Gault Formation
Biozone lautus – nitidus
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Spath. Mon Pal Soc Gault Ammonites p.364 XXXII fig 11a b
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