Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° 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, maugenesti horizon ("Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti zone" of Lang et al.).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, calcareous shale
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 159163: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
? Discinisca holdeni Tate 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti, Acanthopleuroceras cf. maugenesti, Acanthopleuroceras aff. valdani, Acanthopleuroceras cf. valdani
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras cf. maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras aff. valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite includes some as "transition to A. maugenesti"
Acanthopleuroceras cf. valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite | |
Tragophylloceras wechsleri, Tragophylloceras aff. wechsleri, Tragophylloceras aff. intracrustatum, Tragophylloceras ibex
Tragophylloceras wechsleri ammonite
Tragophylloceras aff. wechsleri ammonite
Tragophylloceras aff. intracrustatum ammonite
Tragophylloceras ibex Quenstedt 1843 ammonite | |
Hastites spadixari Simpson 1855 belemnite
Hastites fusiformis n. sp. Lang 1928 belemnite | |
Angeloteuthis raphael Lang 1928 belemnite
Angeloteuthis michael n. sp. Lang 1928 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Coelostylina sp. Kittl 1894 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Parallelodon cf. trapezium Cox 1928 clam |