Where: United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 8.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Inferior Oolite Group, Sauzei (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• Labeled "Sauzei zone, Sherborne" but Mr. Buckman believes it to be "either from the Sauzei or from the Witchellia zone, the matrix being whitish with green grains."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 171172: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Diplocidaris sp. pencil urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus rotundus" = Eutrephoceras rotundum, "Nautilus subrotundus n. sp." = Eutrephoceras subrotundum
"Nautilus rotundus" = Eutrephoceras rotundum Crick 1898 nautiloid
"Nautilus subrotundus n. sp." = Eutrephoceras subrotundum Crick 1898 nautiloid "Buckman considers it to be probably from Truelli bed at Burton Bradstock"
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