Hunstanton (Carstone) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.9° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 5.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Formation is Albian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, brown, green sandstone

• "The typical lithology of the Carstone Formation is a greenish-brown (rusty when weathered), thick-bedded, cross-bedded, oolitic ferruginous 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 165350: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 17.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Cyrtothyris cyrta Walker 1868