GAULT AMMONOIDEA
Euhoplites aspasia Spath 1928
a fine example from the Middle Albian (Lower Gault Clay) of Folkestone, KENT, UK
Catalogue No: F/A/0146/JKC
Site: Folkestone, KENT, UK
Family: HOPLITIDAE H Douvillé, 1890
Subfamily: HOPLITINAE H Douvillé, 1890
Species: Euhoplites aspasia Spath 1928 (juveline)
Measurement : Diameter 23mm
Albian Stage: Middle Albian
Bed & Position: Bed VI - 100mm below top; Euhoplites lautus Zone; Euhoplites lautus/nitidus Subzone
Preservation: Pyritised
References:

a. Wright C. W. 1996. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (Part L Mollusca 4 Revised) Volume 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea

b. Spath L. F. 1928. A Monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault; Part VII. Palaeontographical Society London

c. Owen H.G. 1971. Middle Albian Stratigraphy in the Anglo-Paris Basin, Bulletin of the BM (NH) Geology Supplement 8, London

 

 

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