Gleviceras Limestone (Bed 1b), St. Peter's Field, Radstock (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raricostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Gleviceras Limestone, which is part of the Armatum Bed, E. raricostatum ammonite Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• a thin, fairly hard, strongly bioturbated and highly fossiliferous pale calcarenite containing phosphorites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the OUM

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 33363: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847
 Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
"Paltechioceras tardecrescens" = Plesechioceras delicatum Buckman 1914 ammonite
including P. nobile
Paltechioceras oosteri Dumortier 1869 ammonite
Paltechioceras elicitum Buckman 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oxynoticeratidae
Gleviceras victoris Dumortier 1867 ammonite
Gleviceras grp. victoris
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Eoderoceras armatum Sowerby 1815 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Phricodoceratidae
Epideroceras lorioli Hug 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Tetraspidoceras westfieldense n. sp. Edmunds et al. 2003 ammonite
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
 Terebratulida -