Nettleton Bottom Chalk Quarry, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Limestone Formation II (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lincolnshire Limestone Formation (Middle Inferior Oolite Group), Late/Upper Aalenian to Late/Upper Aalenian (175.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• silt- and sandstone above the Hibaldstow Beds, approx. -342 m

•Nettleton

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; siltstone and sandstone

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 38381: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
high spired
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella sp. Waagen 1907 oyster
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
? Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte" minima d'Ossat 1900 clam
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866