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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite | |
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni Casey 1961 ammonite | |
Protohoplites michelinianus ammonite
Protohoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Pseudosonneratia sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
Otohoplites sp. Steinmann 1925 ammonite | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Martesia sp. Sowerby 1824 clam
Xylophagella sp. Meek 1864 clam | |
Terebrimya sp. Stephenson 1953 clam | |
Demospongiae | |
"Geodites sp." = Geoditesia
"Geodites sp." = Geoditesia Zhuravleva 1962 demosponge |