Dorset BR37: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
75 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aequalis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
2 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
1 individual
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
10 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
2 individuals
originally entered as "Isogomon sp."
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria reticulata
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:Osmington Oolite
Local section:BR Local bed:37
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified silty wackestone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,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:1603
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-18 01:11:07 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:22:54
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-18 01:11:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data.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