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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Bourguetia zenkeni snail | |
Pleurotomaria anglica Sowerby 1818 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Placunopsis striatula Oppel 1856 scallop | |
Lima (Plagiostoma) giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam
Pseudolimea harburyensis file clam | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Liostrea irregularis oyster
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Coroniceras aff. conybeari ammonite | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula beanii Phillips 1836 | |
Discinisca holdeni Tate 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Calcirhynchia calcaria Buckman 1917 | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus tuberculatus Sea lily |