Folkestone, Gault (BGS collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 5.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gault Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: British Geological Survey Museum (formerly Museum of Practical Geology)

Primary reference: T. H. Withers. 1910. The Cretaceous cirripede Pollicipes laevis J. de C. Sowerby. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 7:495-501 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211486: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2020

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Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
"Pollicipes unguis" = Cretiscalpellum unguis
"Pollicipes unguis" = Cretiscalpellum unguis Sowerby 1836 barnacle