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
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 | |
Mariella (Mariella) essenensis Geinitz 1849 ammonite | |
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite |