Dorset BH31: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes sp. (Waagen 1869)
2 individuals
original and current combination Stephanoceras (Perisphinctes)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Cylindrobullinidae
Cylindrites sp. Gesner 1758
1 individual
replaced by Rugalindrites
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania heddingtonensis
8 individuals
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Alaria sp. Morris and Lycett 1851
1 individual
synonym of Dicroloma
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
92 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
37 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna polyodon
1 individual
Pteria pteropernoides
1 individual
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon subplanum
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon sp. (Bayle 1878)
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Acesta sp. Adams and Adams 1858
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
3 individuals
Camptonectes virdunensis (Buvignier 1852)
2 individuals
Radulopecten varians
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata (Sowerby 1819)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. (Meek 1873)
2 individuals
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina cyreniformis
3 individuals
Isocyprina cf. glabra
1 individual
Anisocardia isocardioides
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia dyonisea
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Sowerbya triangularis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Opis curvirostra
3 individuals
Prorokia sp. Böhm 1883
1 individual
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
5 individuals
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: cautisnigrae
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Trigonia clavellata
Local section:BH Local bed:31
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,intraclastic lithified siltstone
Environment:offshore 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:1565
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-14 02:11:36 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:18:21
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-14 02:11:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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