Nettleton Bottom Chalk Quarry, Lincolnshire, Blisworth Limestone at Welton Cr. (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 37.7° N, 20.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bathonian (168.2 - 165.3 Ma)

• The beds are probably Blisworth Limestone equivalents. Fossils were recovered above the Cave Oolite.

•Welton Crossing

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; mudstone 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 38481: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod