Paxford brickyard: Early/Lower Jurassic, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Tutcheria paxfordensis n. sp.
Cox 1946
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| BMNH L18141 (holotype) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Gloucestershire |
| Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 1.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 6.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lias | Formation: | Lower Lias | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "There seems to be no published record of this exposure or of the horizon of the beds formerly visible there" (Cox 1946) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 206280 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2019-11-08 07:24:31 | Last modified: | 2022-09-28 13:25:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-11-08 07:24:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 70814. | L. R. Cox. 1946. Tutcheria and Pseudopis, new lamellibranch genera from the Lias. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 27:34-48 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |