SGB2-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: Scaphites Member (Ferruginous Sands Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• part of author's Ferruginous Sands

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: fossils found in nodules in bed

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 1753: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 07.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras crassum Spath 1930 ammonite
Cheloniceras cornuelianum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Deshayesites grandis Spath 1930 ammonite