Dorset 5 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arietites bucklandi zone, Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Arietites bucklandi Zone, conybeari Subzone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified lime mudstone and poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Hallam. 1960. A sedimentary and faunal study of the Blue Lias of Dorset and Glamorgan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 243:1-44 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29235: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 27.03.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria anglica Sowerby 1818 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis striatula Oppel 1856 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Plagiostoma) giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula beanii Phillips 1836
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae