Biscathorpe gravel pit, Louth, Lincolnshire (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

• poorly sorted clay-rich sandstone, commonly containing pyrite concretions

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

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on bivalves.
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma nuxavellana n. sp. nut clam