Sample WC1, Speeton (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 2.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stoliczkaia dispar ammonoid zone, Weather Castle Member (Hunstanton Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical

• Repository: Liverpool City Museum (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; LIVCM).

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood and S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Albian and Cenomanian selachian assemblages from north-east England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:9-59 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213350: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Paraorthacodus cf. recurvus Trautschold 1877 elasmobranch
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus dubrisiensis Mackie 1863 elasmobranch
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Anomotodon principalis Cappetta 1975 goblin shark
Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon Sokolov 1978 goblin shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Pteroscyllium ornatum n. sp. Underwood and Mitchell 1999 cat shark
 Orectolobiformes - Parascylliidae
Pararhincodon cf. lehmani Cappetta 1980 collared carpetshark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Pseudospinax heterodon Underwood and Mitchell 1999 carpet shark
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei Woodward 1888 angel shark
 Galeomorphi -
"Galeomorphii indet." = Galeomorphi
"Galeomorphii indet." = Galeomorphi shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
"Notorhynchus aptiensis" = Gladioserratus aptiensis
"Notorhynchus aptiensis" = Gladioserratus aptiensis Pictet 1865 cow shark