Atherfield Point, bed 11 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lobster Member (Atherfield Clay Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by T.J. Batchelor; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: T. J. Batchelor and C. J. Duffin. 2023. A new neoselachian shark from the marine Early Cretaceous of southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 134:276-282 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230409: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes -
Corysodon multicristatus Batchelor and Duffin 2023 ground shark
NHMUK PV P 76400