Sherborne, Sauzei zone (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Diplocidaridae
Diplocidaris sp. pencil urchin
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"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"