Where: England, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Spilsby Sandstone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Basal Spilsby Nodule Bed at the base of the Spilsby Sandstone, Middle Volgian (according to Sey and Kalacheva 1999 = Tithonian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

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 69130: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.02.2007, edited by Austin Hendy

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