GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM53481 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Mollusca

    Class Cephalopoda

      Order Ammonitida
Fossil Name Eucalycoceras pentagonum (Jukes Brown)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Eucalycoceras pentagonum (Jukes Brown)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM53481
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Jukes brown 1896
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Cenomanian Glauconitic Chalk ? Bed 13 of Meyer (doubtless derived AJJ B)
Location
Country England
Locality Charton Bay near Lyme Regis
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Chalk Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Maastrichtian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Cenomanian Age (Cretaceous Period) (66 – 100.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Jukes Browne & Hill. 1896. Quart Journ Geol Soc p.156 V figs 1 1a

Kennedy. 1971. Special paper Palaeontology no 8 p.81-83

Spath. 1923. Summ Prog 1922 (Geol Surv) p.144
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