Dorset BR39 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.4° N, 15.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: transversarium zone, Trigonia clavellata Formation, Oxfordian (161.5 - 154.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, intraclastic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1605: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 18.05.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Nucleolites scutatus Lamarck 1816 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella clavellata Parkinson 1811 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam