Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.12.1.119
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.An occurrence of Ammobaculites (Foraminiferida, Lituolacea) in the Purbeck Formation (late Jurassic-early Cretaceous) of Dorset, south-west England
Abstract. An influx of Ammobaculites cf. obliquus Loeblich & Tappan is documented from the late Jurassic-early Cretaceous Purbeck Formation of Dorset, south-west England. The foraminifera are interpreted as inhabitants of a dysaerobic, muddy, brackish lagoonal environment.