Dorset BH23b: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus ungulatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Praeexogyra sp. Charles 1952
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides (Sowerby 1814)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma rigidum (Sowerby 1815)
recombined as Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea contracta
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte contejeani
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Bourguetia sp. Deshayes 1871
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:163.50000 - 157.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Trigonia clavellata
Local section:BH Local bed:23b
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,intraclastic lithified wackestone
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:1557
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:F. Fursich Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-14 00:37:44 Last modified:2006-09-15 13:32:18
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data.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