England WB 1/1: Kimmeridgian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Nucinellidae
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa (Sowerby 1823)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
115 individuals
42 individuals
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
13 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea multiformis Koch and Dunker 1837
2 individuals
Nanogyra virgula (Deshayes 1831)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Aulacomyellidae
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.3° North, 14.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Kimmeridge
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian Zone:  mutabilis-zone
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kimmeridge Clay
Local section:WB Local bed:2/1
Local order:no particular order
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: mudstone
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8574
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:H. Eichiner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-03 03:44:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-08-03 03:44:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]