Mintlyn Wood road cutting, Kings Lynn Bypass, Norfolk (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• stenomphala Biozone, Upper 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 69140: 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
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) subcuneata
 Carditida - Astartidae
Lyapinella rawsoni
Lyapinella rawsoni clam
'abundant'; of the 16 listed specimens, 5 belong to this locality
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella (? Pseudomyophorella) rawsoni