Mochras Borehole 1, near Llanbedr, North Wales (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)
Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 1.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous siltstone and micaceous, gray, silty, calcareous mudstone
• alternating series of hard, medium grey, argillaceous siltstones and softer, dark grey, calcareous, silty and commonly micaceous mudstones with numerous thick bands and nodules of limestone distributed irregularly throughout
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: I. Boomer. 1991. Lower Jurassic ostracod biozonation of the Mochras borehole. Journal of Micropalaeontology 9(2):205-218 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33490: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 31.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda | |
Cytherelloidea circumscripta Blake 1876 ostracod | |
"Ektyphocythere translucens" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere), "Ektyphocythere moorei" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere)
"Ektyphocythere translucens" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere) ostracod
"Ektyphocythere moorei" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere) ostracod |