Burton Cliff, Dorset [Fullers Earth Fm] (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.8° N, 19.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fullers Earth Formation, Bathonian (168.2 - 165.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fullers Earth Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not stated. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the basal 4 m of the Fullers Earth Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty claystone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silty clay. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, Underwood and Ward. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London.

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91448: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.09.2009, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Machimosaurus rigauxi, Machimosaurus bathonicus
Machimosaurus rigauxi Sauvage 1874 marine crocodile
Precise locality unknown
Machimosaurus bathonicus Sauvage 1874 marine crocodile
Precise locality unknown
Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Palaeobrachaelurus mussetti
Palaeobrachaelurus mussetti Underwood and Ward 2004 carpet shark