Pevensey Pit, Ashdown Brickworks (Iguanodont Bed) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Wadhurst Clay Formation), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• new (2016) lowest bed, up to 1 m thick, near base of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; green claystone

• "braided flood plain"
• "green clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Brockhurst in 2010-

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Bexhill Museum collection

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230812: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Hypselospinus fittoni Lydekker 1889 ornithopod
300 bones