Coombe Quarry, Mapperton, Bed 2b (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scissum ammonoid zone, Opalinum (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• limestone, oosparitic, massive but coarsely burrowed, very hard, densely and finely ironshot

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Chandler and J. Callomon. 2009. The Inferior Oolite at Coombe Quarry, near Mapperton, Dorset, and a new Middle Jurassic ammonite faunal horizon, Aa-3b, Leioceras comptocostosum n.biosp. in the Scissum Zone of the Lower Aalenian. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 130:99-132 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141361: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp., Ctenostreon pectiniforme
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya sp., Ceratomya bajociana
Gresslya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam