Kirtlington 3k (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 9.4° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• 3k bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: W.S. McKerrow, R.T. Johnson, and M.E. Jakobson. 1969. Palaeoecological studies in the Great Oolite at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 12(1):56-83 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37508: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 16.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Aphanoptyxis sp. Cossmann 1896 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullinidae indet. Cossmann 1918 snail
described as Natica
 Trochoidea - Ataphridae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pseudotrapezium sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"? Corbis sp." = Fimbria
"? Corbis sp." = Fimbria Mühlfeldt 1811 clam
 Arcida -
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea Lamarck 1809 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia waltoni Lycett 1863 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
described as Nucula
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
Epithyris oxonica Arkell 1931
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata -
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
bone fragments
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
spines
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral