Ekfssjs5-Greensand (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 11.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, silty 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 1814: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus aequalis Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Thetironia minor Sowerby 1826 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae