CBPlb3, Leighton Buzzard [Folkestone, Lower Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 6.3° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Band III

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• fossils from sparse, irregular nodules

Size class: macrofossils

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 1863: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Protohoplites sp., Sonneratia perinflata, Sonneratia sp. n. sp., Sonneratia kitchini, Hoplites sp.
Protohoplites sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Sonneratia sp. n. sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
"spp. nov." - originally entered as "Sonneratia spp. nov."
Sonneratia kitchini Spath 1925 ammonite
Hoplites sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Cleoniceras floridum
 Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras newetoni
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Protanisoceras acteon
Protanisoceras acteon d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras monile, Douvilleiceras mammillatum
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite
Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite