EKfsec35, Baker's Gap, East Cliffs [Folkestone Mbr, Lower Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 7.8° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Douvilleiceras mammillatum ammonoid zone, Folkestone Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• this bed also known as Sulphur Band; bed 35

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, pyritic, sandy 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 1785: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 08.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni Casey 1961 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Protohoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Pseudosonneratia sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
Otohoplites sp. Steinmann 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
cf. Cleoniceras quercifolium ammonite
originally entered as "Cleoniceras cf. quercifolium"
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
Martesia sp. Sowerby 1824 clam
Xylophagella sp. Meek 1864 clam
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Terebrimya sp. Stephenson 1953 clam
Demospongiae
 Ancorinida - Geodiidae
"Geodites sp." = Geoditesia
"Geodites sp." = Geoditesia Zhuravleva 1962 demosponge