W and WSW of Abbey Station, West Dereham, Norfolk (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mintlyn Member (Sandringham Sandstone Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• Mintlyn Member, kochi Biozone, Lower Ryazanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• "The bulk of the bivalve fauna of the Splisby Sandstone and Sandringham Sands formations is preserved as moulds. The lithologies in which these occur are principally calcareous concretions in glauconitic sandstones, sideritc mudstone concretions and phosphatized nodule beds."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

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 69128: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on bivalves.
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Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoma nuxavellana
 Carditida - Astartidae
Lyapinella rawsoni
Lyapinella rawsoni clam
'abundant'; of the 16 listed specimens, 6 belong to this locality
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Turbitrigonia boudiccae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella (? Pseudomyophorella) rawsoni
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Dicranodonta vagans
Dicranodonta vagans clam
'c. 200 specimens' from probably three localities; of the 11 listed specimens, 2 belong to this locality
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Mclearnia) cinctus
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea multicostata
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Anopaea brachowi