Hare Farm Lane, Brede: Early/Lower Valanginian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Neomiodon medius
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810
Reptilia
Iguanodon fittoni Lydekker 1889
1 specimen
recombined as Hypselospinus fittoni
BMNHR1627
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825
1 specimen
HASTMEJB3
Reptilia - Spinosauridae
Suchosaurus sp. Owen 1842
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Baryonychinae
BMNHR4415
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis crassidens Owen 1842
1 specimen
BMNHR3373
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotus sp. (Agassiz 1832)
original and current combination Lepidotes
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:East Sussex
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 0.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Valanginian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Early/Lower Valanginian
Age range of interval:140.20000 - 136.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wealden Formation:Wadhurst Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: between the Top Ashdown Pebble Bed and the Brede Equisetum lyelli Soil Bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation argillaceous sandstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The bone bed comprises thin lenticles of buff sand...the lenticles cut across the current-bedding of the surrounding siltstone and shales...the buff sand constituting bone-bed is non-pebbly, rather argillaceous and poorly sorted and alwas contains bivalve casts"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Degree of concentration:-bonebed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Size sorting:very poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Taxonomic list comments:BMNH and HASTM specimens are labelled 'Brede' and may or may not be from this location
Metadata
Also known as:Brede bonebed
Database number:58094
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-18 12:16:29 Last modified:2022-02-14 10:58:29
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-18 12:16:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15587.ETE M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant]