Watton Cliff, Dorset [Forest Marble Fm]: Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Teleosauridae
Machimosaurus bathonicus Sauvage 1874
Sauvage and Lienard 1879
nomen dubium belonging to Steneosaurus
Precise locality unknown
Machimosaurus rigauxi Sauvage 1874
Sauvage and Lienard 1879
nomen dubium belonging to Steneosaurus
Precise locality unknown
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
? Paracestracion sp. Koken in Zittel 1911
Proheterodontus sylvestris n. sp. Underwood and Ward 2004
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhiniformes indet. Compagno 1973
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Palaeoscyllium tenuidens Underwood and Ward 2004
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Proscylliidae
Eypea leesi n. sp. Underwood and Ward 2004
Chondrichthyes - Protospinacidae
Breviacanthus brevis (Philips 1871)
Chondrichthyes
Galea indet. Shirai 1996
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Spathobatis delsatei Underwood and Ward 2004
Holothuroidea - Etheridgellidae
Frizzellus irregularis Hampton 1958
Hampton 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 0.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° North, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Bathonian
Age range of interval:167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Forest Marble
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Forest Marble Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not stated. AGE: Bathonian; presumably on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From several beds within the Forest Marble Fm; the Boueti Bed and a unit of bioclastic limestone higher in the succession.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Rubbly brachiopod limestone and bioclastic limestone. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, as stated in text.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, Underwood and Ward. REPOSITORY: BMNH, London.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for chondrichthyans. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91449
Authorizer:A. Hendy, P. Mannion, L. Villier Enterer:A. Hendy, J. Tennant, L. Villier
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-27 08:35:51 Last modified:2022-03-21 08:57:55
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-27 08:35:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30802. C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

31904 J. S. Hampton. 1958. Frizzellus irregularis, a new holothurian sclerite from the Upper Bathonian of the Dorset coast, England. Micropaleontology 4(3):309-316 [L. Villier/L. Villier]
50458 H. E. Sauvage and F. Lienard. 1879. Memoire sur le genre Machimosaurus. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 3(1):1-32 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]