Carr's Glen, Cave Hill, Belfast (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.6° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras dixoni ammonoid zone, Belfast Marls Member (Hibernian Greensands Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Carr's Glen Ammonite Bed", from 2.1 m below the top of the "Glauconitic Sands", close to the (unexposed) base of the Belfast Marls.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, sandy claystone

• Dark, highly glauconitic, strongly bioturbated sandy clay

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.M. Hancock; reposited in the SM

Primary reference: A. S. Gale, M. J. Simms, and W. J. Kennedy. 2018. Stratigraphy and ammonite faunas of the Cenomanian rocks of Northern Ireland, UK. Cretaceous Research 87:102-119 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193270: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Mariella (Mariella) essenensis Geinitz 1849 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite