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

Where: United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inferior Oolite Group, Concavum (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• "Probably lower part of Concavum zone" and "fossil bed (probably concavus bed)" according to S.S. Buckman.

• bed-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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. C. Crick. 1898. Descriptions of new or imperfectly known species of Nautilus from the Inferior Oolite, preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3:117-139 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171166: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
"Nautilus bradfordensis" = Cenoceras bradfordense
"Nautilus bradfordensis" = Cenoceras bradfordense Crick 1898 nautiloid