Shanklin, Ferruginous Sands (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ferruginous Sands Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous sandstone

• formation is a locally variable sandstone according to the BGS

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1959. English Aptian Terebratulidae. Palaeontology 2(1):94-142 [A. Tomasovych/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 17.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
 Terebratulida - Capillithyrididae
"Platythyris comptonensis" = Aniabrochus comptonensis
"Platythyris comptonensis" = Aniabrochus comptonensis Middlemiss 1959