Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnite Marls Formation, Ibex (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Valdani subzone, actaeon horizon, ("Acanthopleuroceras actaeon zone" of Lang et al.). Part of Crumbly Bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. D. Lang, L. F. Spath, L. R. Cox and H. M. Muir-Wood. 1928. The Belemnite marls of Charmouth, a series in the Lias of the Dorset Coast. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 84:179-257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159147: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2014

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