Dorset BR46 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.4° N, 15.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; unlithified, burrowed, intraclastic, argillaceous lime mudstone

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 Unpublished data.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 1610: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 18.05.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella clavellata Parkinson 1811 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
Pteria pteropernoides pearl oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulopecten fibrosus Sowerby 1816 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus sp. Agassiz 1843 mussel
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930