Broad Ledge (Turneri beds): Early/Lower Sinemurian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Proteosauridae
Ichthyosaurus platyodon Conybeare 1822
recombined as Proteosaurus platyodon
Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Rhynchonella variabilis Schlotheim 1813
recombined as Cirpa variabilis
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Ammonites semicostatus Young and Bird 1828
recombined as Arietites semicostatus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Ammonites turneri Sowerby 1824
recombined as Caenisites turneri
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 3.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Early/Lower Sinemurian Ammonoid zone: Caensites turneri
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lias
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 4 beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
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
Also known as:Grey Ledge
Database number:227266
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-09-28 14:04:03 Last modified:2022-09-28 14:06:52
Access level:the public Released:2022-09-28 14:04:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32796. T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 [M. Carrano/H. Street]