Shotover Hill, Iron Sands (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as F

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Iron Sands Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• "Iron-sand-and-ochre-series to the top of the hill, 80 feet"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, nodular, black, brown, white, yellow sandstone

• "The whole consists of yellow and white sands, varied with brown and even black colour,—sandstones, sometimes cherty;—nodular and geodic formations of oxide of iron,—bands of white clay,— and local accumulations of ochre."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100655: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris indet.
Pecopteris indet. Brongniart 1822
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina elongata, Paludina sussexiensis, Paludina subangulata, Paludina ornata
Paludina sussexiensis snail
PI. XVI. fig. 6
Paludina subangulata Phillips 1871 snail
PI. XVI. fig. 7
Paludina ornata Phillips 1871 snail
PI. XVI. fig. 8
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cyrenidae
Cyrena media
Cyrena media clam
PI. XVI. fig. 5
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio porrectus, Unio subtruncatus, Unio stricklandii n. sp.
Unio porrectus freshwater mussel
Unio subtruncatus freshwater mussel
PI. XVI. fig. 4
Unio stricklandii n. sp. Phillips 1871 freshwater mussel
PI. XVI. fig. 3