Coxbridge pit, Alton Road, west of Farnham (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Surrey, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Leymeriella tardefurcata ammonoid zone, Folkestone Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Lower Greensand, Folkestone beds, 80-90 feet below the Gault.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: R. Casey. 1954. New genera and subgenera of Lower Cretaceous ammonites. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 44:106-115 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170863: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Farnhamia sp. Casey 1954 ammonite
Farnhamia farnhamensis n. gen. n. sp. Casey 1954 ammonite