Littleton, Guildford (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parahoplites nutfieldensis ammonoid zone, Bargate Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Upper Aptian, lower Parahoplites nutfieldensis Zone, Bargate Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Trevor Batchelor, Rita Batchelor; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: A. S. Gale and S. U. Vidovic. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Brachylepadomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 21(2258370) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.11.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Verrucomorpha - Pycnolepadidae
Pycnolepas batchelorum n. sp. Gale and Vidovic 2023 barnacle