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

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherelloidea circumscripta Blake 1876 ostracod
 Podocopida - Progonocytheridae
"Ektyphocythere translucens" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere), "Ektyphocythere moorei" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere)
"Ektyphocythere translucens" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere) ostracod
"Ektyphocythere moorei" = Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere) ostracod