Nettleton Bottom Chalk Quarry, Lincolnshire, Blisworth Limestone: Bathonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hystrichogonyaulax regalis
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Gymnospermae indet.
replaced by Pinophyta
Algae - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849
unclassified
Tasmanites spp.
Dichadogonyaulax stauromatos
Dichadogonyaulax gochtii
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
small high-spired, tentatively referred to Pseudomelania
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Neomiodon sp.
Neomiodon cunninghamii
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Staffinella sp. Casey 1952
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Cuspidaria ibbetsoni (Morris 1853)
recombined as Rostrocorbula ibbetsoni
Corbulomima sp. Vokes 1945
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Myopholas acuticostata
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa (Sowerby 1823)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Opis sp. Defrance 1824
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
Vaugonia sp. Crickmay 1930
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis socialis Morris and Lycett 1853
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella monotis
Bakevellia waltoni (Lycett 1863)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Praeexogyra hebridica
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
Modiolus imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
unclassified
Dinoflagellata indet.
Dinophyceae
Lithodinia cf. deflandrei
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Sentusidinium spp.
Gonyaulacysta dangeardii
Gonyaulacysta eisenackii
Gonyaulacysta jurassica Deflandre 1964
Scriniodinium spp.
Scriniodinium luridum Cookson and Eisenack 1958
Dinophyceae - Nannoceratopsiaceae
Nannoceratopsis pellucida Deflandre 1938
Dinophyceae
Tenua asymmetra
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Lincolnshire
Coordinates: 53.5° North, 0.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 9.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Oolite Formation:Blisworth Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Blisworth Limestone (4.02 m: 330.64-334.66 m) is lithostratographically equivalent to the White Limestone of Oxfordshire.
Nettleton
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:38401
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2004-04-21 10:16:53 Last modified:2018-12-13 12:44:57
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-21 10:16:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10298.1% M. J. Bradshaw and S.R. Penney. 1982. A cored Jurassic sequence from north Lincolnshire, England: stratigraphy, facies analysis and regional context. Geological Magazine 119(2):113-134 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]