Kirtlington 2k (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.0° N, 1.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.2° N, 20.4° E (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: White Limestone Formation (Great Oolite Group), Bathonian (168.2 - 165.3 Ma)

• 2k-2j-1e beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: W.S. McKerrow, R.T. Johnson, and M.E. Jakobson. 1969. Palaeoecological studies in the Great Oolite at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 12(1):56-83 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37509: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 16.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Favreina sp. Herbig 1993 decapod
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
described as Nucula
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 horsemussel
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia islipensis Lycett 1863 clam
 Cardiida - Pterocardiidae
Pterocardia sp. Bayan 1874 clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullinidae indet. Cossmann 1918 snail
described as Natica
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Epithyris oxonica Arkell 1931
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
bone fragments
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
described as pseudodiatematid