Abstract. Fossils from two fissure fillings in Pant Quarry (designated Pant 4 and Pant 5), South Wales, United Kingdom, probably of Early Jurassic age document a taxonomically diverse vertebrate fauna, the Morganucodon-sphenodont fauna, composed of several kinds of reptiles, non-mammalian synapsids,
Jurassic planktonic foraminifera from the United Kingdom
β Scribed by Melissa J. Oxford; F. John Gregory; Malcolm B. Hart; Andrew S. Henderson; Michael D. Simmons; Matthew P. Watkinson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-4879
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β¦ Synopsis
Unequivocal planktonic foraminifera have been discovered in Oxfordian strata from Dorset and Scotland. These assemblages are, in part, coeval with previously reported occurrences of planktonic taxa in the Oxfordian of Normandy and Seine Maritime (France). Three species are now reported from the United Kingdom for the first time: Globuligerina oxfordiana (Grigelis, 1958), Haeuslerina helvetojurassica (Haeusler, 1881) and Compactogerina sp. cf. C. stellapolaris (Grigelis, 1977). There appears to be a close relationship between the distribution of these planktonic taxa in the UK and a marked seaβlevel highstand.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Planktonic and larger benthonic foraminifers of the Upper Cretaceous (SantonianΒ±Maastrichtian)-Lower Tertiary (Danian) rock units from north, northwest and central Anatolian fore-arc basins have been investigated in order to improve the biostratigraphic resolution of this time interval. Total abunda