St Ives brick pit (Thomas George collection): Early Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae
Magila pichleri Oppel 1862
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Paguridae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Erymidae
Eryma babeaui Etallon 1861
Eryma ventrosa (Von Meyer 1835)
Eryma villersi Morière 1883
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea regleyana (Desmarest 1822)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Mecochirus socialis (Von Meyer 1841)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Stenochiridae
Pseudastacus sp. Oppel 1861
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° North, 16.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Early Oxfordian Ammonoid zone:  Mariae
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ancholme Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Weymouth
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SM
Collection method comments: Repository: Thomas George collection (later presented to the Woodwardian Museum)
Metadata
Also known as:Howe brick pit
Database number:191842
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2018-02-17 17:33:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-17 17:33:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47549.decapod J. Carter. 1886. On the decapod crustaceans of the Oxford Clay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London 42:542-559 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]