Church Cliff, Lyme Regis (BMNH Fish): Early Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by A. Gale & D. Kemp 1975
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Agaleidae
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Agaleus dorsetensis n. gen., n. sp.
Duffin and Ward 1983
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| BMNH P.60788 (holotype), P.60789 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 3.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Sinemurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Sinemurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lias | Formation: | Blue Lias | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Highly likely from Bucklandi zone. Exposed cliffs at Church Cliff extend from bed 17/19 ("Specketty" - latest Hettangian but mostly covered) to bed 47 ("Glass Bottle"), encompassing the entire Bucklandi zone. Overlying Semicostatum zone units are more recessive and slope-forming. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BMNH | ||
| Collectors: | A. Gale & D. Kemp | Collection dates: | 1975 |
| Collection method comments: Collected from a fallen block beneath Church Cliff. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 136920 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Vazquez |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-12-06 11:02:15 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-06 11:02:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43785. | C. J. Duffin and D. J. Ward. 1983. Teeth of a new neoselachian shark from the British Lower Jurassic. Palaeontology 26(4):839-844 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Carrano] |