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
Pinna (Pinna) suprajurensis
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella (Myophorella) intermedia
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]