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
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Scyliorhinidae indet.
Gill 1862
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= Thiesus sp.
Guinot et al. 2014
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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] |