Lower Jurassic ostracods from Ilminster, Somerset, England

Ian Boomer
1992 Journal of Micropalaeontology  
<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Pliensbachian and Toarcian ostracods are described from an interbedded marlstone/carbonate-mud •sequence in South-West England. Sediments of this age in other parts of Britain rarely offer a lithology favourable to the examination of calcareous microfossils. The fauna possesses similarities with other European sequences, particularly to the south. The presence of one species, <i>Ektyphocythere dharennsourensis</i> Boutakiout, Donze &amp;amp; Oulmalch, 1982 suggests
more » ... possible links with North-West Africa at this time.</p>
doi:10.1144/jm.11.1.47 fatcat:2qbfs6degzamnp3q7wopnoyjvy