River Cam at Herrimere, Cambridgeshire (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Erratic block of Lower Spilsby Member, oppressus Biozone, Middle Volgian (according to Sey and Kalacheva 1999 = Tithonian)

• bed-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 69176: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella (Myophorella) leziatensis