Grammatodon-rich Bituminous shale biofacies, Lower Oxford Clay, Central England: Callovian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Anomalodesmatan informal sp. A
2 %-specimens
sp. A
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
2 %-specimens
14 different species
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
8 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella morrisi
27 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella braamburiensis
3 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchii (Roemer 1836)
13 %-specimens
recombined as Bositra buchi
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Kolymiidae
Parainoceramus subtilis
1 %-specimens
synonym of Kolymia
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon minima
7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa (Sowerby 1823)
2 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima macneillii Morris 1900
4 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium damonis
31 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° North, 9.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oxford Clay Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37951
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-28 06:01:05 Last modified:2006-06-17 11:09:06
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-28 06:01:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10108. K. L. Duff. 1975. Palaeoecology of a Bituminous Shale - The Lower Oxford Clay of Central England. Palaeontology 18(3):443-482 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]