Higher Melcome, Dorsetshire Gap [Upper Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stoliczkaia dispar ammonoid zone, Upper Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Upper Greensand, which underlies the Lower Chalk (Late Cenomanian). AGE: Late Albain; on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Stoliczkaia dispar zone; Early Cenomanian in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From top of the Upper Greensand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, green, calcareous conglomerate

• COMMENTS: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular, phosphatic conglomerate, consisting of large cobbles of intensely hard glauconitic calcareous sandstone set in a softer, whiter matrix. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion, replaced with silica, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: W. J. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Unknown, probably the BMNH.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1970. A correlation of the uppermost Albian and the Cenomanian of South-West England. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 81(4):613-677 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82808: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008, edited by Briony Mamo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoidea, bivalvia, gastropoda, and other macrofossils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication and with somewhat antiquated nomenclature. Ammonoidea generally identified to species resolution while bivalves, gastropods and other macrofossils may not.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dorsetensis" = Stoliczkaiella (Stoliczkaiella), Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dispar, "Stoliczkaia cf. notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha
"Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dorsetensis" = Stoliczkaiella (Stoliczkaiella) ammonite
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dispar d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
"Stoliczkaia cf. notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha Seeley 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Arrhaphoceras sp. Whitehouse 1927 ammonite
Lepthoplites cantabrigiensis Spath 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854 ammonite
Anisoceras perarmatum Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Mariella miliaris Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
Ostlingoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Lechites sp. Nowak 1908 ammonite
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima canalifera Goldfuss 1836 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea gibbosa" = Neithea (Neithea) gibbosa
"Neithea gibbosa" = Neithea (Neithea) gibbosa Pultney 1813 scallop
 Arcida -
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea Lamarck 1809 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris sp. M'Coy 1844
Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster laevis sea urchin
Foraminifera
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