Dorset BR38 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: transversarium zone, Trigonia clavellata Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; burrowed, intraclastic, silty wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1604: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 18.05.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Nucleolites scutatus Lamarck 1816 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulopecten fibrosus Sowerby 1816 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam