Speeton, bed C6 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Milanowskia speetonensis ammonoid zone, Speeton Clay Formation (Cromer Knoll Group), Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Bed C6 is also called the Main Speetonensis Bed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, concretionary, glauconitic claystone

• The sediments are dominantly bioturbated open marine clays, some levels being rich in diagenetic carbonate and phosphate concretions and many units being rich in glauconite.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: mechanical

Primary reference: A. Gale. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130:659-672 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183551: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.01.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Thecostraca
 Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae
Martillepas auriculum
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