Sfsw10, Wrecclesham Church [Folkestone, Lower Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 6.2° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Douvilleiceras mammillatum ammonoid zone, Folkestone Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Bed 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic sandstone

• The bed is a seam of phosphatic nodules.

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 1846: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

• bed also contains "usual lamellibranchs"
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Sonneratia parenti, Sonneratia sp., Otohoplites raulinianus
Sonneratia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
Otohoplites raulinianus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Cleoniceras sp. n. sp., Cleoniceras floridum
Cleoniceras sp. n. sp. Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
originally entered as "Cleoniceras sp. nov."
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni, "Beudanticeras dupinianum" = Roberticeras dupinianum
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni Casey 1961 ammonite
"Beudanticeras dupinianum" = Roberticeras dupinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Protanisoceras raulinianum, Protanisoceras acteon
Protanisoceras acteon d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites praegibbosus
Hamites praegibbosus Spath 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
"Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum, Douvilleiceras monile, Douvilleiceras mammillatum
"Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite
Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite