Dorset OSM6: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
3 individuals
ctenostome
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cardioceras sp.
3 individuals
s.s.
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon sp. (Bayle 1878)
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea dilatata
3 individuals
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
26 individuals
Pleuromya alduini (Brongniart 1821)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 2.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 7.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:OSM Local bed:6
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified calcareous 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:1917
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-11 08:59:19 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:25:56
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-11 08:59:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data.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