Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.6° N, 14.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• described as "upper Lower Kimmeridgian" by Galton & Powell; eudoxus Zone; bed c, thickness to middle of bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Prestwich in 1879-1880
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1880. Note on the occurrence of a new species of Iguanodon in a brick-pit of the Kimmeridge Clay at Cumnor Hurst, three miles W.S.W. of Oxford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 36:430-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70997: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2007
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonites biplex Sowerby 1821 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria reticulata Branson 1930 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pinna lanceolata Sowerby 1821 oyster | |
Pecten nitescens scallop | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Perna mytiloides, "Modiola bipartita" = Modiolus
Perna mytiloides mussel
"Modiola bipartita" = Modiolus mussel | |
"Trigonia gibbosa" = Laevitrigonia gibbosa
"Trigonia gibbosa" = Laevitrigonia gibbosa Sowerby 1900 clam | |
"Myacites recurvus" = Unionites
"Myacites recurvus" = Unionites clam | |
"Cardium striatulum" = Protocardia (Protocardia) striatulum
"Cardium striatulum" = Protocardia (Protocardia) striatulum Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Serpula tetragona Feldman et al. 2012 | |
Reptilia | |
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