Pevensey Pit, Ashdown Brickworks (Turtle Bed): Late/Upper Valanginian, United Kingdom
collected by D. Brockhurst
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Naish and Sweetman 2011 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | East Sussex |
| Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 0.4° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.7° North, 10.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wealden | Formation: | Wadhurst Clay | Member: | Lower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lowest bed, "a bone bed which is 5-6 cm thick and lies around 4 metres below the base of the Northiam Sandstone" Hastings Beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomeratic claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "clays, siltstones and sandstones with occasional subordinate limestones, ironstones and pebble beds" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: "braided flood plain" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | D. Brockhurst |
| Collection method comments: Bexhill Museum collection | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96620 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-06-16 08:25:42 | Last modified: | 2023-07-21 14:34:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-06-16 08:25:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32811. | ETE | P. Austen, D. Brockhurst, and K. Honeysett. 2010. Vertebrate fauna from Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill, East Sussex. Wealden News (8)13-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 78161 | D. J. Batten and P. A. Austen. 2011. The Wealden of south-east England. In D. J. Batten (ed.), English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:15-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 36362 | ETE | D. Naish and S. C. Sweetman. 2011. A tiny maniraptoran dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Group: evidence from a new vertebrate-bearing locality in south-east England. Cretaceous Research 32:464-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 85348 | P. Turmine-Juhel, R. Wilks, D. Brockhurst, P. A. Austen, C. J. Duffin and M. J. Benton. 2019. Microvertebrates from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Ashdown Brickworks, East Sussex, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130(6):752-769 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |