Boutcher's pit, Farringdon (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parahoplites nutfieldiensis ammonoid zone, Faringdon Sponge Gravel Member (Faringdon Sand Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Sharpe. 1854. On the age of the fossiliferous sands and gravels of Farringdon and its neighbourhood. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 10:176-198 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183501: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.12.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus farringdonensis n. sp." = Anglonautilus farringdonensis
"Nautilus farringdonensis n. sp." = Anglonautilus farringdonensis Sharpe 1854