East Cranmore, Somerset [Fullers Earth Fm]: Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus cf. levis (Woodward 1889)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Proscylliidae
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Palaeobrachaelurus mussetti Underwood and Ward 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 8.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fullers Earth
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fullers Earth Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not stated. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 2 m of nodular brachiopod limestones of the upper Fullers Earth Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular brachiopod limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, Underwood and Ward. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91453
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-27 08:49:49 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-27 08:49:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30802. C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]