Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 2.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cambridge Greensand Member (West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• Remanie fauna - reworked from late Albian into early Cenomanian deposits. Faunal assemblage is late Albian in age (age used here). "Although the deposit itself is generally considered to be of late Cretaceous, Cenomanian age, its macrofossil assemblage is thought to be derived largely from the underlying early Cretaceous, Albian, Gault Formation, on the basis of derived ammonites associated with the vertebrate fossils. An early Cenomanian age for deposition of the Cambridge Greensand is based on an apparently autochthonous foraminiferan assemblage, but Morter and Wood (1983) could not rule out the possibility of a very late Albian age due to the presence of the bivalve Aucinella. The age of the derived vertebrates is now considered to be no older than the Callihoplites auritus ammonite subzone and most likely no younger than upper Stoliczkaia dispar Zone, and they are thus of late Albian age." (Martill & Unwin 2011, Cretaceous Research, 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.09.003).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lag, glauconitic, micaceous, nodular, phosphatic, green, silty marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Collected by Farren, Fordham in the 1800s
Collection methods: salvage,
• CAMSM: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 94253: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.02.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ichthyosaurus campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon
"Ichthyosaurus campylodon" = Pervushovisaurus campylodon Carter 1846 ichthyosaur teeth, vertebrae, fragmentary bones
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Pterosauria indet., Pterodactyloidea indet., "Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus n. sp." = Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus
"Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus n. sp." = Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus Seeley 1864 pterosaur CAMSM B54855, partial mandibular symphysis
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Actinopteri | |
Gyrodus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
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"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
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