Dorset OS9 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: transversarium zone, Osmington Oolite Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, ooidal siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 Unpublished data.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 1907: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 11.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecidellinidae
"Moorelina sp." = Moorellina
"Moorelina sp." = Moorellina
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Praeexogyra sp. Charles 1952 oyster
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulopecten fibrosus Sowerby 1816 scallop
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930