Roadside sand pit, NE of Old Bolingbroke Church, Lincolnshire: Early/Lower Berriasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna (Pinna) suprajurensis
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Myophorella (Myophorella) intermedia
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3 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.2° North, 0.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 9.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Berriasian | ||
Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 140.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Spilsby Sandstone | Member: | Lower Spilsby | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Spilsby Member, preplicomphalus Biozone, Upper Volgian (according to Sey and Kalacheva 1999 = Lower Berriasian) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
Lithology description: "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." | |
Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BGS |
Taxonomic list comments:Focus on bivalves. |
Metadata
Database number: | 69141 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2007-02-20 06:30:34 | Last modified: | 2007-04-12 03:13:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-02-20 06:30:34 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
19932. | 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] |