Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 9.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Spilsby Sandstone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Basal Spilsby Nodule Bed at the base of the Spilsby Sandstone, Middle Volgian (according to Sey and Kalacheva 1999 = Tithonian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the BGS
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly. 1984. Bivalvia of the Spilsby Sandstone and Sandringham Sands (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of eastern England; Part I. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1-94 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69130: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.02.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus (Modiolus) vicinalis mussel '9 specimens' from probably two localities; of the 4 listed specimens, 3 belong to this locality
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Grammatodon (Grammatodon) compressiusculum, Grammatodon (Grammatodon) schourovskii, "Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) productum" = Cosmetodon
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) schourovskii clam 'about 200 specimens' from probably two localities; of the 72 listed specimens, 67 belong to this locality
"Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) productum" = Cosmetodon clam | |
Pinna (Pinna) suprajurensis oyster | |
Liostrea plastica oyster
Praeexogyra sibirica oyster
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Entolium (Entolium) orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Placunopsis distracta scallop | |
Plicatula (Plicatula) producta scallop | |
Pseudolimea multicostata file clam
Plagiostoma aff. blakei file clam
Plagiostoma subcostatum file clam | |
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Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia Orbigny 1850 scallop | |
Gastrochaenolites lapidicus n. sp.1
Gastrochaenolites lapidicus n. sp.1 Kelly and Bromley 1984 |