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
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Echinoidea | |
Toxaster fittoni heart urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Sanmartinoceras aptiana ammonite | |
Deshayesites forbesi ammonite
Deshayesites sp. Kazansky 1914 ammonite | |
cf. Pseudosaynella fimbriata Imlay 1945 ammonite originally entered as "Pseudosaynella cf. fimbriata"
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Malacostraca | |
"Meyeria magna" = Atherfieldastacus magnus
"Meyeria magna" = Atherfieldastacus magnus M'Coy 1849 decapod |