Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• bed 7, Gryphaea bed, Lower Oxford Clay
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shelly/skeletal, green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
Primary reference: D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 148892: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Reptilia | |
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