Oxfordian

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Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rock layers at the base of a cliff at low tide at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England.

Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rock layers at the base of a cliff at low tide at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England.

United Kingdom Jurassic Oxfordian
The Géoscope at the motorway service station, La Lozère, displays a collection of rocks found in Lozère. Each has a description.


Limestone (beige) Oxfordian
Provenance:La Canourgue, Lozère

The Géoscope at the motorway service station, La Lozère, displays a collection of rocks found in Lozère. Each has a description. Limestone (beige) Oxfordian Provenance:La Canourgue, Lozère

description Oxfordian
Cliff at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England (at low tide). Soft Quaternary deposits lie on top of horizontal layers of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rocks.
Intervals Oxfordian

Cliff at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England (at low tide). Soft Quaternary deposits lie on top of horizontal layers of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rocks.

United Kingdom Jurassic Oxfordian Quaternary
Partial skull and anterior cervical vertebrae of unidentified pliosaurid plesiosaurian (MPPL 18797) from the uppermost Callovian–middle Oxfordian of Kaberlaba (Asiago, Italy), in left lateral view. Photograph (A) and explanatory drawing (B). White, preserved bone surfaces; dark grey, preserved margins of skull fenestrae; light grey, eroded bone surface; cross hatching, broken bone.
Taxa Anguanax

Partial skull and anterior cervical vertebrae of unidentified pliosaurid plesiosaurian (MPPL 18797) from the uppermost Callovian–middle Oxfordian of Kaberlaba (Asiago, Italy), in left lateral view. Photograph (A) and explanatory drawing (B). White, preserved bone surfaces; dark grey, preserved margins of skull fenestrae; light grey, eroded bone surface; cross hatching, broken bone.

bone drawing Italy Callovian +6
Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) cyclic sediments at Péry-Reuchenette, near Tavannes, kanton Bern, Switzerland. Alternating layers are limestone (light, more competent) and marl/clay; dominant cycle is the 200.000 year-cycle.
Formations Reuchenette

Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) cyclic sediments at Péry-Reuchenette, near Tavannes, kanton Bern, Switzerland. Alternating layers are limestone (light, more competent) and marl/clay; dominant cycle is the 200.000 year-cycle.

Switzerland Reuchenette Jurassic Oxfordian