Coombe Quarry, Mapperton, Bed 5,6 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Parkinsoni (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bioclastic limestones, in several courses, separated by undulating marly partings, with much ferruginous staining and clay pockets from superficial weathering

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 141365: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Strigoceratidae
Strigoceras truellei d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Oxycerites cf. aspidoides Oppel 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Parkinsonia parkinsoni Sowerby 1821 ammonite
Parkinsonia dorsetensis Wright 1856 ammonite
"Parkinsonia bomfordi" = Parkinsonia (Durotrigensia) bomfordi Arkell 1956 ammonite
Parkinsonia pseudoferruginea Nicolesco 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
 Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae
Bigotites petri Nicolesco 1917 ammonite