Lyme Regis, Brooki subzone (BMNH): Turneri, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Caenisites cf. brooki (Sowerby 1818)
Cephalopoda - Loligosepiida - Loligosepiidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.9° North, 10.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Turneri
Age range of interval: 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The calcareous mudstone in which the insects are preserved varies in fineness and is frequently full of burrows…" Whalley, 1985
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:158212
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-16 18:19:04 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-16 18:19:04
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
51972. D. T. Donovan and S. von Boletzky. 2014. Loligosepia (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Lower Jurassic of the Dorset coast, England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 273:45-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]