Potterne (Rifle Butts) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Greensand Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 153964: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 20.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Ovatathyris potternensis n. sp. Owen 1988