Cambridge, Cambridge Greensand (Spath collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 2.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mortoniceras fallax ammonoid zone, Cambridge Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Lower part of the Stoliczkaia dispar zone (S. (Faraudiella) gardonica subzone of authors). Reworked upper Albian material in base of Lower Cenomanian Cambridge Greensand.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, nodular, phosphatic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Spath; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: C. W. Wright and W. J. Kennedy. 1979. Origin and evolution of the Cretaceous micromorph ammonite family Flickiidae. Palaeontology 22:685-704 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178194: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Flickiidae
"Salaziceras salazacensis" = Salaziceras (Salaziceras) salazacense
"Salaziceras salazacensis" = Salaziceras (Salaziceras) salazacense Hébert and Munier-Chalmas 1875 ammonite