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The base of the Jurassic System: new data on the first appearance of Psiloceras planorbis in southwest Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Peter Hodges
Peter Hodges
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NP, UK
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Abstract

Recent collecting in the Lower Lias of localities at St Audrie's Bay, north Somerset, Sedbury Cliff, Gloucester and Lavernock Point, South Glamorgan has yielded Psiloceras planorbis (J. de C. Sowerby) in beds considered by some to be of Rhaetian, Triassic age. These are the earliest records of this ammonite to date in southwest Britain. Evidence is provided of a major facies change at the top of the pre-planorbis beds followed by the diachronous first occurrence of Psiloceras planorbis. These new data have implications for the use of earliest occurrence of Psiloceras planorbis as a chronostratigraphic marker in defining the base of the Jurassic System, and for the definition of the base of the Hettangian Stage in the recently proposed candidate Global Stratotype Section at St Audrie's Bay.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 131 , Issue 6 , November 1994 , pp. 841 - 844
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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