Compton Bay (Schloenbachia varians zone) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schloenbachia varians ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• From the Lower Chalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.W. Wright, E.V. Wright; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Gale. 2016. Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14:653-702 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210337: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
Leweslepas wrightorum n. sp. Gale 2016 barnacle