Farcet borrow pit (bed 9) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• bed 9, Lower Oxford Clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shelly/skeletal lithology not reported

• "Gryphaea bed"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Martill in 1984

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149242: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Leedsichthys sp. Woodward 1889
fin ray