Somersham brick pit: Early Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Aspidodiadematoida - Aspidodiadematidae
Eosalenia jessoni (Gregory 1896)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Cambridgeshire
Coordinates: 52.4° North, 0.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 16.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Early Oxfordian Ammonoid zone:  Quenstedtoceras 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
Database number:93211
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-01-08 00:23:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-08 00:23:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
31504. A. B. Smith. 1995. Echinoids from the Jurassic Oxford Clay of England. Palaeontology 38(4):743-755 [L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

66694 A. B. Smith. 2015. British Jurassic regular echinoids. Part 1, Introduction, Cidaroida, Echinothurioida, Aspidodiadematoida and Pedinoida. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 169(644):1-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]