Bed 111c, Lower 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)

• Polymorphus subzone ("Polymorphites polymorphus zone" of Lang et al.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

• Indurated, very pale 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 159810: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Cincta opulenta Buckman 1907
"Ornithella sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Passaloteuthididae
Passaloteuthis elongata Miller 1826 belemnite