Hollington Quarry (BMNH): Early Valanginian, United Kingdom
collected by C. Dawson 1884-1889
| Country: | United Kingdom |
State/province: | England |
County: | Sussex |
| Coordinates: |
50.9° North, 0.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 20.7° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Valanginian |
| Age range of interval: | 139.8 - 132.6 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Wealden |
Formation: | Wadhurst Clay |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: The Wadhurst Clay Formation of the Hastings Beds Subgroup has an ages of Lower Valanginian according to Radley (2006; vide Allen & Wimbledon 1991) |
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: Shallow, freshwater to slightly brackish lakes, including horsetail ‘reed’ bed and terrestrial fauna. Fossils throughout the Wadhurst Clay Formation include ostracods, conchostracans (‘clam-shrimps’), pond-snails and the low-salinity bivalve Neomiodon. Widespread siltstone and fine sandstone gutter- and scour-fills indicate storm activity and/or fluvial runoff into the Wadhurst lakes (Radley 2006) |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collectors: | C. Dawson |
Collection dates: | 1884-1889 |
| Database number: | 52649 |
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion |
Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-15 11:39:26 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2005-08-15 11:39:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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