Luccombe Chine, base of bed 15 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hypacanthoplites jacobi ammonoid zone, Sandrock Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• 14 m above the base of the Sandrock Formation (upper Aptian/lower Albian). Aptian/Albian

•boundary interval, Sandrock Formation, rubricosus nodules near base of bed 15 (shown as bed 16 on stratigraphic column). Hypacanthoplites rubicosus Subzone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, nodular, phosphatic mudstone

• dark glauconitic shaley mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. Lehmann and H. M. Bayliss. 2024. Additions to the subfamily Acanthohoplitinae from the British Isles, including the first verifiable record of Acanthohoplites (Lower Cretaceous, upper Aptian). Cretaceous Research 162(105921)more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235735: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites "sp. 1", Hypacanthoplites plesiotypicus, Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis, Hypacanthoplites pricei, Hypacanthoplites tenuiformis, "Hypacanthoplites" elegans
Hypacanthoplites "sp. 1" Spath 1923 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites plesiotypicus Fritel 1906 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis Casey 1965 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites pricei Casey 1965 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites tenuiformis Casey 1950 ammonite
"Hypacanthoplites" elegans Fritel 1906 ammonite