Henbury Point, Dorset [Forest Marble Fm]: Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinidae indet. Gill 1862
    = Thiesus sp. Guinot et al. 2014
Guinot et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 51.5° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 8.0° 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:bed
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 the Boueti Bed.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Brachiopod-rich biosparite. 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:91451
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Clapham
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-27 08:44:44 Last modified:2022-03-21 08:58:01
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-27 08:44:44
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:

73766 G. Guinot, H. Cappetta, and S. Adnet. 2014. A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research 48:54-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]