Leckhampton Hill, Inferior Oolite (USNM coll) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inferior Oolite Group, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• upper inferior Oolite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159949: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 12.08.2014, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea obliqua n. sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae