Warminster (Upper Greensand) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: E. F. Owen. 1988. Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 44(2):65-175 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153918: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 18.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Grasirhynchia grasiana d'Orbigny 1849
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Ovatathyris ovata Sowerby 1812
Boubeithyris diploplicata n. sp. Owen 1988
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Dereta pectita Sowerby 1816
Dereta pectita ballardensis
 Terebratulida - Praeargyrothecidae
"Argyrotheca megatrema" = Praeargyrotheca megatrema
"Argyrotheca megatrema" = Praeargyrotheca megatrema Sowerby 1836