Where: England, United Kingdom (53.4° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 9.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Spilsby Member (Spilsby Sandstone Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)
• Upper Spilsby Member, albidum Biozone, Upper Ryazanian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the BGS
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• collection of the author and R. G. Thurrell
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly. 1984. Bivalvia of the Spilsby Sandstone and Sandringham Sands (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of eastern England; Part I. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1-94 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69126: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) thurrelli n. sp. clam | |
Entolium (Entolium) orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Camptonectes (Mclearnia) cinctus Sowerby 1822 scallop | |
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Musculus (Musculus) biscathorpensis n. sp., Musculus (Musculus) zakharovi n. sp.
Musculus (Musculus) biscathorpensis n. sp. mussel
Musculus (Musculus) zakharovi n. sp. mussel | |
Mesomiltha biscathorpensis n. sp.
Mesomiltha biscathorpensis n. sp. clam | |
Myophorella (? Pseudomyophorella) rawsoni n. sp. clam | |
Nuculoma nuxavellana n. sp.
Nuculoma nuxavellana n. sp. nut clam |