Bradford Abbas, Fossil Bed (Buckman) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as probably bed 6biii

Where: United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hyperlioceras politum ammonoid zone, Bradford Abbas Fossil Bed Member (Aston Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Hyperlioceras politum subzone of Hyperlioceras discites zone. Sowerbyi-bed in Hudleston. Aston Limestone according to Barron, Lott & Riding 2012 (Stratigraphical framework for the Middle Jurassic strata of Great Britain and the adjoining continental shelf. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/11/06).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, ferruginous, ooidal, gray, yellow limestone

• yellow to gray, variably ferrugnious bioturbated oolitic limestones (Chandler et al. 1990)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: S.S. Buckman's personal collection, now most likely at BMNH or BGS

Primary reference: S. S. Buckman. 1917. The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma. Palaeontologia Indica 3(2):1-254 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171005: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 30.06.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Rhactorhynchia brevis n. sp. Buckman 1917
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae
Pseudalaria etheridgii2 Tawney 1873 periwinkle
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Strigoceratidae
"Deltostrigites deltotus n. gen. n. sp." = Praestrigites deltotus3
"Deltostrigites deltotus n. gen. n. sp." = Praestrigites deltotus3 Buckman 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
"Docidoceras planulatum n. sp." = Mollistephanus planulatus1
"Docidoceras planulatum n. sp." = Mollistephanus planulatus1 Buckman 1921 ammonite