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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cheloniceras crassum Spath 1930 ammonite
Cheloniceras cornuelianum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite | |
Australiceras gigas ammonite | |
Deshayesites grandis Spath 1930 ammonite |