Nettleton Bottom Chalk Quarry, Lincolnshire, Blisworth Clay (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.5° N, 19.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blisworth Clay Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• The dark grey claystones overlies the Blisworth Limestone.

•Nettleton

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. J. Bradshaw and S.R. Penney. 1982. A cored Jurassic sequence from north Lincolnshire, England: stratigraphy, facies analysis and regional context. Geological Magazine 119(2):113-134 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38479: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Algae
  - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
  -
Dichadogonyaulax
  -
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Cyzicidae
Cyzicus sp. Audouin 1837 clam shrimp
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Limnocytheridae
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
small gastropods
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
? Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Cuspidaria ibbetsoni" = Rostrocorbula ibbetsoni
"Cuspidaria ibbetsoni" = Rostrocorbula ibbetsoni Morris 1853 clam
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Fish debris