Chippenham, Christian Malford (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Peterborough Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Kosmoceras phaeinum subzone. Uppermost Peterborough Member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, carbonaceous mudstone

• "accumulated in a wide, shallow (30–50 m deep) epeiric sea"
• "The Lower Oxford Clay is composed predominantly of organic-rich mudstones that on exposure rapidly develop a shale-like fissility" (Hudson & Martill 1991, p. 20-21)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. Fuchs, Y. Iba, A. Heyng, M. Iijima, C. Klug, N. L. Larson, and G. Schweigert. 2019. The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods. Papers in Palaeontology 6:31-92 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212961: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Octopoda - Muensterellidae
Muensterellina johnjagti n. gen. n. sp.
Muensterellina johnjagti n. gen. n. sp. Fuchs et al. 2019 octopus