Where: Northamptonshire, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 7.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marlstone Rock Formation, Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• Only known from the top three or four feet of the spinatum Zone. It occurs commonly in a shell band near the top of the Marlstone Rock-bed, associated with the earliest dactylioceratid ammonites.
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: D. V. Ager. 1954. The genus Gibbirhynchia in the British Domerian. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 65:25-51 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138200: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella northamptonensis n. sp." = Gibbirhynchia northamptonensis
"Rhynchonella northamptonensis n. sp." = Gibbirhynchia northamptonensis Davidson 1878 Rhynchonella tetrahedra var. northamptonensis
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