Sherborne, Sandford Lane, bed 6b (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otoites sauzei ammonoid zone, Sauzei (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• Sauzei zone, Sauzei subzone or Kumaterus subzone

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

• Repository: Wessex Cephalopod Club (destined for Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge)

Primary reference: J. T. Whicher, R. B. Chandler, and R. Hoffmann. 2023. Lytoceratid ammonites from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Bajocian) of Dorset (United Kingdom). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 134:216-245 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229896: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras eudesianum d'Orbigny 1846 ammonite
Megalytoceras trapeza Quenstedt 1886 ammonite