Dogsthorpe brick pit (bed 12): Middle Callovian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Pachycormiformes
- Pachycormidae
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Pachycormidae indet.
Woodward 1895
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Cambridgeshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.6° North, 0.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 9.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Callovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Callovian | Ammonoid zone: | Kosmoceras jason |
| Age range of interval: | 165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Ancholme | Formation: | Oxford Clay | Member: | Peterborough |
| Local section: | Peterborough | Local bed: | 12 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | massive,gray claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a dark grey clay which is fissile in its lower part" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Shanks & McEwan Waste Services Ltd. Peterborough | ||
| Database number: | 149245 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-31 05:49:27 | Last modified: | 2013-07-30 15:05:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-07-31 05:49:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47746. | D. M. Martill. 1986. The stratigraphic distribution and preservation of fossil vertebrates in the Oxford Clay of England. Mercian Geologist 10(3):161-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |