Cowley Field (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 9.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Calcareous Grit Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone
• "Sand partly consolidated into sandstone is the basis of this deposit through all the low escarpment of the tract which looks northwards on the upper vale of Thames. It is rarely exposed except in road-cuttings, and at the base of the 'coral rag,' where that is quarried for the roads and walls. This occurs on the road to Shotover, at Cowley and Bullingdon, and in the country near Besselsleigh and Marcham. It is in these cases usually a fine sand, with occasional shells"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 100518: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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