East Cranmore, Somerset [Fullers Earth Fm]: Bathonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Synechodontiformes
- Palaeospinacidae
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Synechodus cf. levis
(Woodward 1889)
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Chondrichthyes
- Orectolobiformes
- Hemiscylliidae
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Palaeobrachaelurus mussetti
Underwood and Ward 2004
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Proscylliidae
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Eypea leesi
Underwood and Ward 2004
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 2.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.6° North, 8.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Bathonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fullers Earth | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fullers Earth Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not stated. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 2 m of nodular brachiopod limestones of the upper Fullers Earth Formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | nodular lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular brachiopod limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, Underwood and Ward. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London. | |
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications. |
Metadata
Database number: | 91453 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-09-27 08:49:49 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-27 08:49:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
30802. | C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy] |