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Micropalaeontological evidence for land near Cirencester, England, in Forest Marble (Bathonian) times: a preliminary account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. Ware  and
T. M. F. Windle
M. Ware
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 3DB
T. M. F. Windle
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Birkbeck College, University London, Malet Street, London WC1 7HX
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Summary

Analysis of a Bathonian ostracod fauna and the microflora from a claypit at Tarlton, Gloucestershire, strongly suggests that land was then nearby. Among the non-marine Ostracoda are cypridacean species similar to lacustrine forms from the French Bathonian. Such an assemblage has not previously been recorded from Britain. The clay is assigned to Bate's revised Bathonian ostracod zone 6, and a palaeogeographical interpretation is offered in terms of recent reconstructions of British Bathonian landmasses.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 4 , July 1981 , pp. 415 - 420
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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