Hare-Bushes Quarry, stage 4 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Harebushes, Cirencester

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.7° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bath Oolite Formation (Great Oolite Group), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• "Bath Oolite" below Forest Marble

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; concretionary, ooidal, white carbonate

• "aacumulated on a widely shelving beach, or in a very shallow sea
• "A very white or cream-coloured freestone, in rough nodular blocks"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dalton

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Buckman. 1859. On some fossil reptilian eggs from the Great Oolite of Cirencester. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:107-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74641: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
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Oolithes bathonicae n. gen. n. sp.
Oolithes bathonicae n. gen. n. sp. Buckman 1859 reptile
associated eggs; NHM R.499, 37987