St Ives brick pit (SM collection): Early Oxfordian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Eryonidae
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Eryon sublevis n. sp.
Carter 1886
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Paguridae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Erymidae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Glypheidae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Mecochiridae
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Mecochirus socialis
(Von Meyer 1841)
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Echinoidea
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Trochotiara superbum
(Agassiz 1840)
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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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Howe brick pit | ||
| Database number: | 93210 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier, C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | L. Villier, E. Johnson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-08 00:08:37 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-08 00:08:37 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 31504 | A. B. Smith. 1995. Echinoids from the Jurassic Oxford Clay of England. Palaeontology 38(4):743-755 [L. Villier/L. Villier] |