Dorset BC10: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
6 individuals
cycloserpula
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cardioceras sp.
3 individuals
Cardioceras
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus ungulatus
1 individual
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptochlamys intertextus
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Chlamys (Camptochlamys)
Camptonectes auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 individuals
Camptonectes virdunensis (Buvignier 1852)
3 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula weymouthiana
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
27 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon gregareum (Sowerby 1816)
7 individuals
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
4 individuals
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
15 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
17 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Gryphaea dilatata
4 individuals
Bilobissa
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia dyenisea
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
10 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya sp. Agassiz 1843
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya aequalis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
1 individual
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubeculinella sp. Cushman 1930
3 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: plicatilis
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nothe Grits
Local section:BC Local bed:10
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified sandstone
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:1900
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-11 08:02:58 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:24:46
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-11 08:02:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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