Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Gryphaea shell beds are restricted to the transition beds between the Kellaways Rock and the Oxford Clay

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: K. L. Duff. 1975. Palaeoecology of a Bituminous Shale - The Lower Oxford Clay of Central England. Palaeontology 18(3):443-482 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37955: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.03.2004

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