Bed 115, Upper Pale Band, Charmouth (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, Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "Uptonia obsoleta zone" of Lang et al.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray marl

• Pale-grey marls

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 159797: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella" sp.
"Rhynchonella" sp. Fischer 1809
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Plagiostoma gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum
"Plagiostoma gigantea" = Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Uptonia reynardi, Uptonia sp., Uptonia bronni, Platypleuroceras "sp. nov.", Platypleuroceras spp., Platypleuroceras cf. brevispina
Uptonia sp. Buckman 1898 ammonite
Uptonia bronni Roemer 1836 ammonite
Platypleuroceras "sp. nov." Hyatt 1867 ammonite
Platypleuroceras spp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite
Platypleuroceras cf. brevispina Sowerby 1827 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Juraphyllitidae
? Tragophylloceras sp.
? Tragophylloceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Passaloteuthididae
Passaloteuthis woottonensis
Passaloteuthis woottonensis Lang 1928 belemnite