ULB-Greensand (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 9.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lobster Member (Atherfield Clay Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• part of author's Atherfield Clay Series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Casey. 1961. The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontology 3(4):487-621 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1748: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 07.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster fittoni heart urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Deshayesites sp. Kazansky 1914 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
aff. Pseudosaynella undulata ammonite
originally entered as "Pseudosaynella aff. undulata"
cf. Pseudosaynella fimbriata Imlay 1945 ammonite
originally entered as "Pseudosaynella cf. fimbriata"
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
"Meyeria magna" = Atherfieldastacus magnus
"Meyeria magna" = Atherfieldastacus magnus M'Coy 1849 decapod