England CQ (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gryphite Grit Member (Middle Inferior Oolite Formation), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• CQ section

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, nodular, shelly/skeletal, sandy packstone

• nodular, sandy packstone; bioturbated, shelly

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 Unpublished data.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 8522: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Hans Eichiner on 26.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya concentrica Sowerby 1822 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Fimbria lajoyei d'Archiac 1843 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma cf. rodburgensis Whidborne 1883 file clam
Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
cf. Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) bilobata Sowerby 1835 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
 Terebratulida - Dictyothyrididae
Dictyothyris sp. Douville 1880
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809