Blandford Forum South [Upper Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Upper Greensand, which is overlain by the Glauconitic Marl (Early Cenomanian). AGE: Late Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Stoliczkaia dispar zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a few exposed m of the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone

• COMMENTS: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Decalcified glauconitic sand with phosphatized fossils. LITHIFICATION: Lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, 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 82813: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008

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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.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Ostlingoceras puzosianum
Ostlingoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite