Dorset BC14 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: plicatilis zone, Nothe Grits Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, bioturbated sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1903: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 11.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga inclusa Phillips 1829 mussel
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
"Pseudomonotis ovalis" = Claraia ovalis
"Pseudomonotis ovalis" = Claraia ovalis Whiteaves 1889 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Plagiostoma rigidum" = Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida
"Plagiostoma rigidum" = Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida Sowerby 1815 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Radulopecten fibrosus Sowerby 1816 scallop
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea dilatata oyster
Bilobissa
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cycloserpula