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)
• Polymorphus subzone ("Polymorphites polymorphus zone" of Lang et al.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified 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 159808: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys rollei, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) prisca" = Pecten priscus
Chlamys rollei Stoliczka 1861 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) prisca" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Pteria carixensis n. sp.
Pteria carixensis n. sp. Cox 1928 pearl oyster | |
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa
"Inoceramus ventricosus" = Parainoceramya ventricosa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Polymorphites cf. trivialis ammonite
Polymorphites sp. Haug 1887 ammonite | |
"Metoxynoticeras cf. flavum" = Radstockiceras, "Metoxynoticeras lynx" = Radstockiceras
"Metoxynoticeras cf. flavum" = Radstockiceras ammonite
"Metoxynoticeras lynx" = Radstockiceras ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Ornithella sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis
"Ornithella sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850 | |
"Rudirhynchia calcicosta" = Calcirhynchia calcicosta
"Rudirhynchia calcicosta" = Calcirhynchia calcicosta Quenstedt 1852 |