Nettleton Bottom Chalk Quarry, Lincolnshire, Tenuicostatum Zone (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Most if not all of this sequence belongs to the tenuicostatum zone.

•Nettleton

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

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 38378: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Dactylioceras sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam