Shenley Hill Pit, Leighton Buzzard: Early Albian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Goniodromitidae
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Etyidae
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Capillithyrididae
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Bedfordshire |
| Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 0.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 23.6° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.2 - 110.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shenley Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic,shelly/skeletal lithified packstone |
| Lithology description: Pale brown phosphatic limestone with scattered polished goethite balls | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: Bioclastic limestone filling cavities in the topmost ironstone. Limestone infilled spaces around hardground mounds. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 169628 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, C. Schweitzer | Enterer: | M. Clapham, L. Baltzly |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-05-31 21:08:22 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-05-31 21:08:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43337. | G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 55837 | decapod | C. W. Wright and J. S. H. Collins. 1972. British Cretaceous Crabs. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 1-114 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly] |