Where: United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.4° N, 20.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Discites (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, lenticular, gray limestone and lithified, burrowed, ferruginous limestone
•3b-limestone, very fine-grained, harder, dark grey weathering cream; densely ironshot, the ooliths uniform, small to medium-sized, dark brown
•3c-limestone, locally biosparitic, ferruginous, marly to argillaceous, strongly burrowed, much limonitic crust, occasional snuff-boxes; medium- to coarse-grained ironshot, in cloudy distribution, with pockets of very coarse, light brown ooliths in grey matrix, as in the snuff-box bed at Burton Bradstock
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Chandler and J. Callomon. 2009. The Inferior Oolite at Coombe Quarry, near Mapperton, Dorset, and a new Middle Jurassic ammonite faunal horizon, Aa-3b, Leioceras comptocostosum n.biosp. in the Scissum Zone of the Lower Aalenian. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 130:99-132 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141363: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.03.2013
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