St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight (Chloritic/Glauconitic Marl) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glauconitic Marl Member (West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: unlithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone and glauconitic, nodular, phosphatic, silty, sandy chalk

• Calcareous glauconitic sand and glauconitic sandy silty chalk with phosphatic nodules

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 154013: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 22.01.2014, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia coronula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans, "Nautilus expansus" = Eutrephoceras expansum
"Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans Sowerby 1816
"Nautilus expansus" = Eutrephoceras expansum Sowerby 1824
 Ammonitida -
Ammonites coupei Brongniart 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
"Ammonites curvatus" = Hyphoplites curvatus
"Ammonites curvatus" = Hyphoplites curvatus Mantell 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
"Ammonites varians" = Schloenbachia varians
"Ammonites varians" = Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Ammonites navicularis" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare, "Ammonites mantelli" = Mantelliceras mantelli
"Ammonites navicularis" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite
"Ammonites mantelli" = Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Turrilites wiestii" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus, "Turrilites tuberculatus" = Hypoturrilites tuberculatus, "Turrilites morrisii" = Neostlingoceras morrisi
"Turrilites wiestii" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite
"Turrilites tuberculatus" = Hypoturrilites tuberculatus Bosc 1801 ammonite
"Turrilites morrisii" = Neostlingoceras morrisi Sharpe 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite
Hamites attenuatus Sowerby 1814 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites aequalis ammonite
"very rare"
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Cinulia sp. Gray 1847 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Solarium ornatum Lea 1833 top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Emarginula sp. Lamarck 1801 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten beaveri, "Pecten interstriatus" = Pecten nerei, Pecten asper
"Pecten interstriatus" = Pecten nerei Münster 1841 scallop
Pecten asper Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni Goldfuss 1835 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana d'Orbigny 1849
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
"Terebratula pectita" = Dereta pectita
"Terebratula pectita" = Dereta pectita Sowerby 1816
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris vesiculosa pencil urchin