Dorset BR40: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Obornella sp. Cox 1959
1 individual
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956
9 individuals
Leptomaria sp. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1864
1 individual
[entered as Leptomoria sp.]
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822
4 individuals
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Bourguetia sp. Deshayes 1871
1 individual
Pseudomelania heddingtonensis
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
26 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945
10 individuals
Prorokia sp. Böhm 1883
1 individual
Astarte contejeani
4 individuals
Astarte morini
26 individuals
Astarte cf. curvirostris
4 individuals
Neocrassina ovata
1 individual
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina rotundata (Roemer 1835)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
37 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina glabra
2 individuals
Isocyprina cyreniformis
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia dyonisea
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Sowerbya triangularis
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia nigra
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818
2 individuals
Mytilus varians
12 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon subplanum
1 individual
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Deltoideum sp. Rollier 1917
1 individual
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
6 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon sp. (Bayle 1878)
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella ovalis (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma mutabile
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis duriuscula
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes intertextus
2 individuals
Radulopecten varians
2 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
7 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: transversarium
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Trigonia clavellata
Local section:BR Local bed:40
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,intraclastic lithified packstone
Environment:offshore shelf 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:1606
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-18 03:09:09 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:23:22
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-18 03:09:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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