Farcet borrow pit (bed 9): Callovian, United Kingdom
collected by D. Martill 1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Leedsichthys sp. Woodward 1889
1 specimen
fin ray
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 53.5° North, 0.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.3° North, 19.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Peterborough
Local section:Peterborough Local bed:9
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 9, Lower Oxford Clay
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Gryphaea bed"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:D. Martill Collection dates:Dec 1984
Metadata
Database number:149242
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:taphonomy,vertebrate
Created:2013-07-31 05:38:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-31 05:38:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47746. D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]