Aylesbury Isopod (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 8.9° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Purbeck Beds Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
• although not reported, research of lithology consists of: calcareous mudstones, clays, marls with marly shales, tufaceous/ shelly limestones, with oolitic and sandy strata, and a few evaporites
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1898. On the Discovery of Cyclosphaeroma in the Purbeck Beds of Aylesbury. The Geological Magazine 5:385-388 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144962: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 24.05.2013
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Cyclosphaeroma sp. Woodward 1890 isopod | |