Ringstead Bay (Inconstans Bed, OUM collection): Early Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Aulacostephanidae
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Pictonia densicostata
Buckman 1924
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Pictonia seminudata
(Buckman 1924)
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 2.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 13.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early Kimmeridgian | Ammonoid zone: | Baylei |
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 152.21 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kimmeridge Clay |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | OUM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 163958 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-11-20 21:56:29 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-11-20 21:56:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 53525. | J. K. Wright. 2010. The Aulacostephanidae (Ammonoidea) of the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds (Upper Jurassic) of southern England. Palaeontology 53:11-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |