Champion Bay: Early/Lower Bajocian, Australia
collected by H.P. Woodward
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
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Belemnitida indet.
Zittel 1895
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Otoitidae
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Ammonites (Sphaeroceras) woodwardi n. sp.
Crick 1894
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Crick 1894 | |||||||||
| recombined as Otoites woodwardi | ||||||||||
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Ammonites (Stephanoceras) australe n. sp.
Crick 1894
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| recombined as Otoites australis | ||||||||||
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Ammonites (Perisphinctes) robiginosus n. sp.
Crick 1894
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Crick 1894 | |||||||||
| recombined as Pseudotoites robiginosus | ||||||||||
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Ammonites (Stephanoceras) sp.
(Waagen 1869)
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= Pseudotoites championensis
Crick 1894
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Arkell and Playford 1954 | |||||||||
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Ammonites (Perisphinctes) championensis n. sp.
Crick 1894
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Crick 1894 | |||||||||
| recombined as Pseudotoites championensis | ||||||||||
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Ammonites (Sphaeroceras) semiornatus n. sp.
Crick 1894
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Crick 1894 | |||||||||
| recombined as Pseudotoites semiornatus | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Sonniniidae
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Ammonites (Dorsetensia) clarkei n. sp.
Crick 1894
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| recombined as Newmarracarroceras clarkei | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Cenoceratidae
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Nautilus perornatus n. sp.
Crick 1894
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| recombined as Cenoceras perornatus | ||||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 28.7° South, 114.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° South, 57.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Bajocian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Bajocian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 170.90000 - 168.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Champion Bay | Formation: | Newmarracarra Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Correlated with the ovalis/laeviuscula Zones of the lower Bajocian by Hall (1989). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collectors: | H.P. Woodward |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Cape Riche" specimens also came from Champion Bay, according to later authors. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171208 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-04 19:54:34 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-04 19:54:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55707. | G. C. Crick. 1894. On a collection of Jurassic Cephalopoda from Western Australia - obtained by Harry Page Woodward, F.G.S., government geologist - with descriptions of the species. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 1:385-393 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 55711 | W. J. Arkell and P. E. Playford. 1954. The Bajocian ammonites of Western Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 237:547-605 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 55708 | G. C. Crick. 1894. On a collection of Jurassic Cephalopoda from Western Australia - obtained by Harry Page Woodward, F.G.S., government geologist - with descriptions of the species. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 1:433-441 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |