Dorset BH22: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Obornella sp. Cox 1959
1 individual
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956
1 individual
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Littorina sp. Ferussac 1821
1 individual
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania heddingtonensis
1 individual
[entered as Pseodomelania heddingtonensis]
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus varians
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon sp. (Bayle 1878)
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
39 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea contracta
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia dyonisea
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia isocardioides
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
22 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
13 individuals
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora versipora
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 2.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.4° North, 7.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Epoch:Malm
Key time interval:Oxfordian Zone: transversarium
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Trigonia clavellata
Local section:BH Local bed:22
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,intraclastic lithified packstone
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:1555
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-14 00:29:32 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:17:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-14 00:29:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]