Windsor Hill: Pliensbachian, United Kingdom
collected by W. Kühne 1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tritylodontidae
Oligokyphus minor n. sp. Kühne 1956
Oligokyphus major n. sp. Kühne 1956
More than 2000 isolated Oligokyphus elements are known
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Saurichthys acuminatus Agassiz 1843
Evans and Kermack 1994 5 elements
recombined as Birgeria acuminata
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Acrodus minimus Agassiz 1839
Evans and Kermack 1994 10 elements
recombined as Lissodus minimus
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus anningiae Agassiz 1843
2 elements
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes
Hybodus minor Agassiz 1837
Evans and Kermack 1994
recombined as Rhomphaiodon minor
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Arnioceras sp. Hyatt 1867
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Promicroceras sp. Spath 1925
Cephalopoda
Belemnoidea indet. Hyatt 1884
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inaquivalve
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
? Pseudolimea sp. Douglas and Arkell 1932
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Somerset
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.3° North, 6.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Fissure fill deposit. Pliensbachian age is based upon the diverse marine invertebrate fauna
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,pebbly sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fissure fill
Geology comments: "The fissure was a Neptunian dyke (a fissure opening under the sea)" (Evans & Kermack (1994)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,hydrochloric,field collection
Collection size:2000 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:W. Kühne Collection dates:1939
Metadata
Also known as:Mendip 14, Shepton Mallet
Database number:105605
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-23 01:33:21 Last modified:2016-06-17 16:15:08
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-23 01:33:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43866. W. Kühne. 1956. The Liassic therapsid Oligokyphus. British Museum (Natural History), London 1-149 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

43869 A. W. Crompton. 1964. On the skull of Oligokyphus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 9(4):67-82 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
12169 S. E. Evans and K. A. Kermack. 1994. Assemblages of small tetrapods from the Early Jurassic of Britain. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 271-283 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]
12290 P. L. Robinson. 1957. The Mesozoic fissures of the Bristol Channel area and their vertebrate faunas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 43:260-228 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Butler]