WCSB1-Greensand: Aptian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Deshayesitidae
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Dufrenoya furcata
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| spelled with current rank as Dufrenoyia | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "Dufrenoyia furcata" | ||||||||||
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Dufrenoya lurensis
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| spelled with current rank as Dufrenoyia | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "Dufrenoyia lurensis" | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Ancyloceratidae
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Tropaeum bowerbanki
Sowerby 1837
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| recombined as Tropaeum (Tropaeum) bowerbanki | ||||||||||
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Tonohamites aequicingulatus
(von Koenen 1902)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Douvilleiceratidae
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Cheloniceras meyendorffi
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Cheloniceras cornuelianum
(d'Orbigny 1840)
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Cheloniceras crassum
Spath 1930
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopea gurgitis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Resatrix hythensis
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Mactromyidae
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Thetironia minor
(Sowerby 1826)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys robinaldina
(Orbigny 1847)
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| recombined as Mimachlamys robinaldina | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca dupiniana
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea cornueliana
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 1.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 9.5° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Aptian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 3 | *Epoch: | Gallic |
| Key time interval: | Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Lower Greensand | Formation: | Ferruginous Sands | Member: | Walpen Clay and Sand |
| Local section: | Atherfield Point | Local bed: | 1 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: part of the author's Ferruginous Sands | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic,gray,green argillaceous sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: fossils found within phosphatic concretions | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 1757 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-06-08 06:40:44 | Last modified: | 2021-05-24 16:39:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-06-08 06:40:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47. | R. Casey. 1961. The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontology 3(4):487-621 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Carrano] |