Where: United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 8.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Inferior Oolite Group, Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Middle Jurassic in text; justification not given for age assignment; generally regarded as Aalenian or Bajocian; here placed in Aalenian on the basis of stratigraphic position, to avoid stratigraphic orphaning. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a 4-inchg blie clay bed with Avicula contorta zone fauna, lying 3 ft, 8 inches below the "Inferior Oolite".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, blue claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Bath Museum.
Primary reference: A. G. Smith. 1973. Fossil chitons from the Mesozoic - A checklist and bibliography. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences 103:1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91223: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polyplacophora | |
"Chiton" rhaeticus Moore 1861 chiton |