Dover (coranguinum zone): Late Coniacian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Dercetidae
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Leptotrachelus elongatus
(Agassiz 1835)
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Kent |
| Coordinates: | 51.1° North, 1.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.1° North, 3.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Coniacian | Other zone: | Micraster coranguinum |
| Age range of interval: | 89.8 - 86.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Seaford |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified chalk |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 227793 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-10-31 12:41:38 | Last modified: | 2022-10-31 12:41:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-10-31 12:41:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82882. | A. S. Woodward. 1903. The fossil fishes of the English Chalk. Part II. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 57(266):57-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |