White Hart Sandpit, Wilmington (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Wilmington Sand Member (Beer Head Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, burrowed, pebbly, pyritic, calcareous sandstone

• Decalcified calcareous sand and sandy calcarenite, coarse grained at the base. Fine- and medium-grained beds alternate with medium- and coarse grained beds, all with granules and small pebbles. There are several horizons of laterally impersistent and partially silicified thalassinoid burrow systems. Shallow trough cross-bedding is present at several levels and there are traces of rotted pyritic horizons.

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 153947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 20.01.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia wilmingtonensis n. sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Burrirhynchia devoniana n. sp.
Burrirhynchia devoniana n. sp. Owen 1988
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina protostriatula
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Rectithyris wrightorum n. sp., Ovatathyris ovata
Rectithyris wrightorum n. sp. Owen 1988
Ovatathyris ovata Sowerby 1812
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Homolidae
Latheticocarcinus brightoni
Latheticocarcinus brightoni Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Paranecrocarcinidae
"Paranecrocarcinus digitatus" = Pseudonecrocarcinus digitatus, Pseudonecrocarcinus biscissus, "Paranecrocarcinus foersteri" = Pseudonecrocarcinus foersteri
"Paranecrocarcinus digitatus" = Pseudonecrocarcinus digitatus Wright and Collins 1972 crab
Pseudonecrocarcinus biscissus Wright and Collins 1972 crab
"Paranecrocarcinus foersteri" = Pseudonecrocarcinus foersteri Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Goniodromites cenomanensis
Goniodromites cenomanensis Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Bucculentidae
Wilmingtonia sp., Wilmingtonia satyrica
Wilmingtonia sp. Wright and Collins 1972 crab
Wilmingtonia satyrica Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Longodromitidae
Glaessnerella kennedyi, Glaessnerella nodulosa
Glaessnerella kennedyi Wright and Collins 1972 crab
Glaessnerella nodulosa Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Etyidae
Xanthosia fossa
Xanthosia fossa Wright and Collins 1972 crab