Watton Cliff, Dorset, Wattonensis beds (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Forest Marble Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the informally named Wattonensis beds. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the brachiopod-rich shelly marls of the Wattonensis beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal marl

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Brachiopod-rich shelly marls. 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 91455: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Chondrichthyes
 Hexanchiformes - Pseudonotidanidae
Pseudonotidanus semirugosus n. sp.
Pseudonotidanus semirugosus n. sp. Underwood and Ward 2004 elasmobranch