Dunton Green, zone of Hysteroceras varicosum (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras inflatum ammonoid zone, Gault Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Hysteroceras varicosum subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Möckler; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. D. Taylor. 1986. Charixa Lang and Spinicharixa gen. nov., cheilostome bryozoans from the Lower Cretaceous. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 40:197-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212760: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Electridae
Herpetopora gaultiana
Charixa vennensis in Lang 1915
Spinicharixa dimorpha Taylor 1986
Part of Charixa vennensis in Lang 1915