Near Salisbury (Uintacrinus band) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uintacrinus socialis other zone, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Uintacrinus-band of the zone of Marsupites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

• General group description: Chalk, with or without flint and discrete limestone, marl (calcareous mudstone), sponge, calcarenite, phosphatic, hardground and fossil-rich beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.P. Blackmore; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1902. The fossil fishes of the English Chalk, Part I. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 56:1-56 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222447: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.09.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Polymixiiformes - Polymixiidae
"Homonotus dorsalis" = Homonotichthys dorsalis
"Homonotus dorsalis" = Homonotichthys dorsalis Dixon 1850 beardfish