Compton, Bargate Beds (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bargate Beds Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, ferruginous, brown, gray, calcareous sandstone

• "In the Guildford district the Member comprises buff to brown, gritty to ferruginous, cemented, cross-bedded, coarse-grained sandstone with beds of pale grey calcareous sandstone." (according to the BGS)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• C.W. Wright's collection

Primary reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1959. English Aptian Terebratulidae. Palaeontology 2(1):94-142 [A. Tomasovych/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65783: authorized by Adam Tomasovych, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 25.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Sellithyris sella, Praelongithyris praelongiforma, Cyrtothyris seeleyi, Cyrtothyris cyrta, Rhombothyris extensa
Sellithyris sella Sowerby 1823
Cyrtothyris seeleyi Walker 1870
Cyrtothyris cyrta Walker 1868
 Terebratulida - Capillithyrididae
"Platythyris comptonensis n. sp." = Aniabrochus comptonensis
"Platythyris comptonensis n. sp." = Aniabrochus comptonensis Middlemiss 1959