Shenley Hill Pit, Leighton Buzzard (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shenley Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal packstone

• Bioclastic limestone filling cavities in the topmost ironstone. Limestone infilled spaces around hardground mounds.
• Pale brown phosphatic limestone with scattered polished goethite balls

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169628: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.05.2015, edited by Lerin Baltzly

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Capillithyrididae
Capillarina diversa
Capillarina diversa Cox and Middlemiss 1978
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Etyidae
Etyus buteonsis
 Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Distefania sinuososulcata
Distefania sinuososulcata Wright and Collins 1972 crab