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
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 | |
Micrabacia coronula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Pecten beaveri scallop
Pecten asper Lamarck 1819 scallop
"Pecten interstriatus" = Pecten nerei Münster 1841 scallop | |
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Plicatula pectinoides scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Cinulia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Vermicularia concava turret shell | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Gibbula laevistriata top snail
Solarium ornatum Lea 1833 top snail | |
Emarginula sp. Lamarck 1801 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite
Hamites attenuatus Sowerby 1814 ammonite | |
"Turrilites morrisii" = Neostlingoceras morrisi, "Turrilites tuberculatus" = Hypoturrilites tuberculatus, "Turrilites wiestii" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus
"Turrilites morrisii" = Neostlingoceras morrisi Sharpe 1857 ammonite
"Turrilites tuberculatus" = Hypoturrilites tuberculatus Bosc 1801 ammonite
"Turrilites wiestii" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite | |
Ammonites coupei Brongniart 1822 ammonite | |
"Ammonites mantelli" = Mantelliceras mantelli, "Ammonites navicularis" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
"Ammonites mantelli" = Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
"Ammonites navicularis" = Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
"Ammonites varians" = Schloenbachia varians
"Ammonites varians" = Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
"Ammonites curvatus" = Hyphoplites curvatus
"Ammonites curvatus" = Hyphoplites curvatus Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
"Nautilus expansus" = Eutrephoceras expansum, "Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans
"Nautilus expansus" = Eutrephoceras expansum Sowerby 1824
"Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans Sowerby 1816 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana d'Orbigny 1849 | |
"Terebratula pectita" = Dereta pectita
"Terebratula pectita" = Dereta pectita Sowerby 1816 | |
Echinoidea | |
Discoidea subuculus sea urchin | |
Cidaris vesiculosa pencil urchin |