Kirtlington 2k: Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
bone fragments
Echinoidea
1 specimen
described as pseudodiatematid
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Epithyris oxonica Arkell 1931
223 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
1 specimen
described as Nucula
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
54 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
26 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Pterocardiidae
Pterocardia sp. Bayan 1874
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullinidae indet. Cossmann 1918
3 specimens
described as Natica
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
7 specimens
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 20.4° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 4
Key time interval: Bathonian
Age range of interval: 168.2 - 165.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Oolite Formation:White Limestone
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 2k-2j-1e beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37509
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-16 02:45:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-16 02:45:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
10036. W.S. McKerrow, R.T. Johnson, and M.E. Jakobson. 1969. Palaeoecological studies in the Great Oolite at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 12(1):56-83 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]