Dorset BH24: Oxfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula weymouthiana
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma rigidum (Sowerby 1815)
4 individuals
recombined as Lima (Plagiostoma) rigida
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
2 individuals
Radulopecten varians
14 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
95 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides (Sowerby 1814)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
3 individuals
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea contracta
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
21 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945
1 individual
Astarte morini
24 individuals
Astarte nummus
1 individual
Astarte contejeani
13 individuals
Astarte cf. curvirostris
11 individuals
Neocrassina ovata
2 individuals
Opis curvirostra
3 individuals
Trigonopis
Opis corallina Damon 1860
2 individuals
Trigonopis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1863
2 individuals
Anisocardia isocardioides
6 individuals
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
1 individual
Isocyprina glabra
1 individual
Isocyprina cf. simplex
13 individuals
Isocyprina cyreniformis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicella sp. Morris and Lycett 1853
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Sowerbya triangularis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina rotundata (Roemer 1835)
1 individual
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902
1 individual
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Littorina muricata
1 individual
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862
1 individual
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956
1 individual
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Acrosalenia decorata
2 individuals
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Nucleolites scutatus Lamarck 1816
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 2.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.4° North, 7.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Epoch:Malm
Key time interval:Oxfordian Zone: transversarium
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Trigonia clavellata
Local section:BH Local bed:24
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,intraclastic lithified packstone
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:1558
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-14 00:43:09 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:17:10
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-14 00:43:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]