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
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
Foraminifera | |
Echinoidea | |
Discoidea subculus sea urchin | |
Catopygus columbaris sea urchin | |
Holaster laevis sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea Lamarck 1809 clam | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
"Neithea gibbosa" = Neithea (Neithea) gibbosa
"Neithea gibbosa" = Neithea (Neithea) gibbosa Pultney 1813 scallop | |
Chlamys aspera scallop | |
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Lima canalifera Goldfuss 1836 file clam | |
Exogyra obliquata oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854 ammonite
Anisoceras perarmatum Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite | |
Lechites sp., "Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini
Lechites sp. Nowak 1908 ammonite
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite | |
Stomohamites sp. ammonite | |
Mariella miliaris Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
Ostlingoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite | |
Lepthoplites sp., Lepthoplites cantabrigiensis, Callihoplites cf. vraconensis, Callihoplites sp., Discohoplites sp., Arrhaphoceras studeri, Arrhaphoceras sp.
Lepthoplites sp. ammonite
Lepthoplites cantabrigiensis Spath 1926 ammonite
Callihoplites cf. vraconensis ammonite
Callihoplites sp. ammonite
Discohoplites sp. ammonite
Arrhaphoceras studeri ammonite
Arrhaphoceras sp. Whitehouse 1927 ammonite | |
"Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dorsetensis" = Stoliczkaiella (Stoliczkaiella), "Stoliczkaia cf. notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha, Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dispar
"Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dorsetensis" = Stoliczkaiella (Stoliczkaiella) ammonite
"Stoliczkaia cf. notha" = Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha Seeley 1865 ammonite
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) dispar d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyclothyris sp. M'Coy 1844 |