Blackdown (Vicary collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blackdown Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by W. Vicary; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: T. H. Withers. 1910. The Cretaceous cirripede Pollicipes laevis J. de C. Sowerby. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 7:495-501 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2020

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Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
"Pollicipes imbricatus n. sp." = Cretiscalpellum imbricatum
"Pollicipes imbricatus n. sp." = Cretiscalpellum imbricatum Withers 1910 barnacle