Oxfordshire SPB: Middle Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Paracidaris florigemma (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
plates, spines
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Nucleolites scutatus Lamarck 1816
2 individuals
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Cycloserpula intestinalis
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga inclusa Phillips 1829
7 individuals
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia scabrella
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea dilatata
3 individuals
Bilobissa
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
37 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
5 individuals
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma rigidum (Sowerby 1815)
4 individuals
recombined as Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma expansa
1 individual
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
1 individual
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina ovata
14 individuals
Neocrassina subdepressa
2 individuals
Opis curvirostra
7 individuals
Trigonopis
Opis corallina Damon 1860
2 individuals
Trigonopis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
10 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha texta
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia nigra
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Sowerbya triangularis
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes sp. (Waagen 1869)
3 individuals
original and current combination Stephanoceras (Perisphinctes)
Gastropoda - Purpurinidae
Ochetochilus sp. Cossmann 1899
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Berkshire
Coordinates: 51.8° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 8.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Middle Oxfordian
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian Zone: plicatilis
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Berkshire Oolite
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Shell cum Pebble Bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:intraclastic lithified packstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:4087
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 02:27:34 Last modified:2017-07-28 16:15:57
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-14 02:27:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]