Tighe Farm (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Tyghe Farm

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wadhurst Clay Formation (Wealden Group), Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• The Telham Pebble bed, from the lower part of the Wadhurst Clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; quartzose, argillaceous conglomerate

• Pebble bed, quartz grit with clay partings, broken and abraded vertebrate fossils present, friable to heavily indurated with ferruginous cement.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Dr. K.A. Kermack and P.M. Lees in 1969; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve

Primary reference: W. A. Clemens and P. M. Lees. 1971. A review of English Early Cretaceous mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(suppl. 1):117-130 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117934: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Mammalia -
Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. mammal
University College London W-12 (isolated premolar)
 Dryolestoidea - Dryolestidae
"Melanodon hodsoni n. sp." = Laolestes hodsoni
"Melanodon hodsoni n. sp." = Laolestes hodsoni Clemens and Lees 1971 mammal
University College London W-14 (holotype right upper molar), W-13 (right upper molar)