Locality 1, Hundon Manor, Caistor, Lincolnshire: Late Berriasian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
1 specimen
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 53.5° North, 0.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.0° North, 17.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Late Berriasian
Age range of interval: 139.1 - 137.05 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Spilsby Sandstone Member:Upper Spilsby
Local section:Hundon Manor Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Spilsby Member, albidum Biozone, Upper Ryazanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic poorly lithified sandstone
Lithology description: medium-fine silty glauconitic sands, locally cemented
Environment:shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BGS
Collection method comments: might incl. specimens of museum collection
Taxonomic list comments:Focus on bivalves.
Metadata
Database number:69142
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-20 06:38:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-20 06:38:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]