EKfsmp-Greensand (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 11.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Folkestone Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 1811: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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indet. anglicus
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Leymeriellidae
Leymeriella sp.
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
"Parahoplites nutfieldensis" = Parahoplites nutfieldiensis
"Parahoplites nutfieldensis" = Parahoplites nutfieldiensis Sowerby 1815 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites simmsi, Hypacanthoplites sp.
Hypacanthoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp.
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite