Farcet borrow pit (bed 12) (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 12, Lower Oxford Clay - uncertain assignment (possibly Bed 14)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; gray claystone

• "a dark grey clay which is fissile in its lower part"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

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 149243: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Leedsichthys sp.
Leedsichthys sp. Woodward 1889
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