Painswick (Oolite Marl) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scottsquar Member (Birdlip Limestone Formation), Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• "Oolite Marl" recombined as Scottsquar Member according to the BGS

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, white lime mudstone

• beds and lenses of grey to white, commonly highly fossiliferous marl/carbonate mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160060: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 14.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Globirhynchia subobsoleta