Westbury (Westbury Ironstone, NHM collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wiltshire, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.6° N, 15.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudocordata ammonoid zone, Westbury Ironstone Member (Ampthill Clay Formation), Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Pseudocordata subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. K. Wright. 2010. The Aulacostephanidae (Ammonoidea) of the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds (Upper Jurassic) of southern England. Palaeontology 53:11-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163939: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae
Ringsteadia marstonensis Salfeld 1917 ammonite
Ringsteadia brandesi Salfeld 1917 ammonite
Microbiplices anglicus Arkell 1947 ammonite