Apoderoceras Limestone, St. Peter's Field, Radstock (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 6.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Apoderoceras Limestone, which is part of the Armatum Bed, U. jamesoni ammonite Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• hard, massive limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the OUM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Edmunds, M. Varah, and A. Bentley. 2003. The ammonite biostratigraphy of the Lower Lias "Armatum Bed" (Upper Sinemurian-Lower Pliensbachian) at St Peter's Field, Radstock, Somerset. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 114(1):65-96 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33358: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Apoderoceras sparsinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite