FBBC-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: Ferruginous Bands of Blackgang Chine Member (Ferruginous Sands Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone

• interbedded are three ranges of iron concretions

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: no cephalopods recovered here despite profusion of other molluscs

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 1764: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 08.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia sublaevigata snail
originally entered as "Globurlaria sublaevigata"
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Solenida - Pharidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Resatrix parva venus clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Thetironia minor Sowerby 1826 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae