CBPgs-Greensand (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 4.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Greensand Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• greensand outcrops locally between a carstone breccia and the Gault (fm. above Lower Greensand)

•Shenley

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone

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 1865: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 10.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Isocrinus sp.
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa, Gryphaeostrea canaliculata
"Ostrea vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites minimus
Neohibolites minimus Miller 1826 belemnite
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula antiquata
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum unguis
Cretiscalpellum unguis Sowerby 1836 barnacle
 Verrucomorpha - Pycnolepadidae
Pycnolepas rigida
Pycnolepas rigida Sowerby 1836 barnacle