WCSB1-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: Walpen Clay and Sand Member (Ferruginous Sands Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• part of the author's Ferruginous Sands

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: fossils found within phosphatic concretions

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 1757: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 08.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Thetironia minor Sowerby 1826 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys robinaldina" = Mimachlamys robinaldina
"Chlamys robinaldina" = Mimachlamys robinaldina Orbigny 1847 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras cornuelianum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
Cheloniceras crassum Spath 1930 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Tonohamites aequicingulatus von Koenen 1902 ammonite
"Tropaeum bowerbanki" = Tropaeum (Tropaeum) bowerbanki Sowerby 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
"Dufrenoya furcata" = Dufrenoyia, "Dufrenoya lurensis" = Dufrenoyia
"Dufrenoya furcata" = Dufrenoyia ammonite
originally entered as "Dufrenoyia furcata"
"Dufrenoya lurensis" = Dufrenoyia ammonite
originally entered as "Dufrenoyia lurensis"