Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 6.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnite Marls Formation, Ibex (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• Valdani subzone, actaeon horizon, ("Acanthopleuroceras actaeon zone" of Lang et al.). "Belemnite bed" sensu stricto of former authors.
• 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 159156: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Passaloteuthis dayi n. sp., Passaloteuthis apicicurvata, Passaloteuthis cf. apicicurvata, Passaloteuthis seatownensis
Passaloteuthis dayi n. sp. Lang 1928 belemnite
Passaloteuthis apicicurvata Blainville 1827 belemnite
Passaloteuthis cf. apicicurvata Blainville 1827 belemnite
Passaloteuthis seatownensis Lang 1928 belemnite | |
Hastites cf. stonebarroensis Lang 1928 belemnite | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Lytoceras fimbriatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
"Acanthopleuroceras aff. calliplocoides" = Tropidoceras calliplocoides
"Acanthopleuroceras aff. calliplocoides" = Tropidoceras calliplocoides Spath 1923 ammonite |