Dorset RCB-EF: Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga inclusa Phillips 1829
4 individuals
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
4 individuals
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
44 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Acesta sp. Adams and Adams 1858
4 individuals
Plagiostoma rigidum (Sowerby 1815)
3 individuals
recombined as Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida
Ctenostreon proboscideum (Sowerby 1820)
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina ovata
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya alduini (Brongniart 1821)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha texta
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia intexta (Muenster 1837)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia isocardioides
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya hemicardia
2 individuals
Goniomya literata (Sowerby 1819)
1 individual
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
1 individual
Gastropoda - Purpurinidae
Ochetochilus sp. Cossmann 1899
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 7.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Epoch:Malm
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian Zone: baylei
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ringstead Coral Bed
Local section:RCB Local bed:EF
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified claystone
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:1571
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-14 07:07:31 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:21:53
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-14 07:07:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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