Kimmeridgian
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The Kimmeridgian is a stage of the Late Jurassic Epoch. It spans the time between 155.7 ± 4 Ma and 150.8 ± 4 Ma (million years ago).
The stage takes its name from the town of Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast, England. The beach at Kimmeridge Bay is a good place for looking for fossils — there are specimens on the beach washed in by the tide.
The Kimmeridge Clay formation is the source for about 95% of the petroleum in the North Sea
Fauna
- Amphicoelias fragillimus?
- Aviatyrannis jurassica
- Hesperosaurus
- Seismosaurus
- Stokesosaurus clevelandi
- Europasaurus holgeri
- Metriorhynchus
- ''Geosaurus
- ''Dakosaurus
Localities
References
| Jurassic period | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower/Early Jurassic | Middle Jurassic | Upper/Late Jurassic | |||
| Hettangian | Sinemurian | Aalenian | Bajocian | Oxfordian | Kimmeridgian |
| Pliensbachian | Toarcian | Bathonian | Callovian | Tithonian | |
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