Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Chert and Rag Member (Upper Greensand Formation), Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified chert and coarse-grained, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: C. Parkinson. 1881. Upper Greensand and Chloritic Marl, Isle of Wight. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 37:370-375 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198091: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 08.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
"Siphonia pyriformis" = Siphonia (Siphonia) pyriformis
"Siphonia pyriformis" = Siphonia (Siphonia) pyriformis Goldfuss 1826 demosponge | |
Echinoidea | |
Holaster laevis sea urchin
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836 sea urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Ammonites rostratus" = Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum
"Ammonites rostratus" = Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
"Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans, Nautilus sp.
"Nautilus elegans" = Cymatoceras elegans Sowerby 1816
Nautilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Cucullaea glabra Parkinson 1811 clam | |
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni
"Pecten orbicularis" = Syncyclonema nilsoni Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Lima aspera file clam | |
"Pecten interstriatus" = Pecten nerei
"Pecten interstriatus" = Pecten nerei Münster 1841 scallop | |
"Ostrea vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa, Exogyra conica
"Ostrea vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster
Exogyra conica Sowerby 1813 oyster | |
"Ostrea frons" = Dendostrea frons
"Ostrea frons" = Dendostrea frons Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Sigillariaceae | |