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Dactylioceras athleticum (Simpson 1855)
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Taxonomy
Ammonite
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Dactylioceratidae
Genus: Dactylioceras
Species: athleticum
Author Citation Simpson 1855
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Epoch: Early
International Age: Early Toarcian
Stratigraphy
Posidonienschiefer-Formation
Biostratigraphy
Bifrons zone
Commune subzone
Provenance
Collector: Roger Furze
Date Collected: 11/14/2015
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 cm
Location
Schnaittach
Bavaria
Germany
- a251
- a1088
- bavaria
- bifrons zone
- dactylioceras athleticum
- germany
- lower jurassic
- lower toarcian
- schnaittach
Comments
The last three photos show a specimen from the Whitby Mudstone Formation in Yorkshire in pyrite conservation. The diagnosis for distinguishing this species from D.commune, which is quite similar, can be found in the collection here under that species.
Literature: Howarth, M.K. (1973): The Stratigraphy and Ammonite Fauna of the Upper Liassic Grey Shales of the Yorkshire Coast. Bulletin of the British Museum
(Natural History) Geology. Vol.24 No.4
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