Bed 119, Belemnite Shales, Golden Cap (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• Brown marly shales, with impersistent lenticles of crinoid-limestone at the top

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

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Coelostylina sp.
Coelostylina sp. Kittl 1894 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon cf. trapezium
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Passaloteuthididae
Angeloteuthis michael n. sp., Angeloteuthis raphael
Angeloteuthis michael n. sp. Lang 1928 belemnite
Angeloteuthis raphael Lang 1928 belemnite
 Belemnitida - Hastitidae
Hastites spadixari, Hastites fusiformis n. sp.
Hastites spadixari Simpson 1855 belemnite
Hastites fusiformis n. sp. Lang 1928 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Acanthopleuroceras aff. valdani, Acanthopleuroceras cf. valdani, Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti, Acanthopleuroceras cf. maugenesti
Acanthopleuroceras aff. valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
includes some as "transition to A. maugenesti"
Acanthopleuroceras cf. valdani d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Acanthopleuroceras cf. maugenesti d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Juraphyllitidae
Tragophylloceras wechsleri, Tragophylloceras aff. wechsleri, Tragophylloceras aff. intracrustatum, Tragophylloceras ibex
Tragophylloceras ibex Quenstedt 1843 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia
"Tropiorhynchia thalia" = Piarorhynchia thalia d'Orbigny 1850
Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
? Discinisca holdeni