Ekfssjs16, Sandling Junction Sandpit [Folkestone Mbr, Lower Greensand] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 7.7° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Douvilleiceras mammillatum ammonoid zone, Folkestone Formation (Lower Greensand Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Bed 16

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, gray, green, sandy shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Casey. 1961. The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontology 3(4):487-621 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1818: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. n. sp., "Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum, Douvilleiceras monile, Douvilleiceras mammillatum
Douvilleiceras sp. n. sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
originally entered as "Douvilleiceras sp. nov."
"Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite
Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Protanisoceras raulinianum, Protanisoceras cantianum
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Sonneratia dutempleana, Pseudosonneratia sp. n. sp., Otohoplites auritiformis, Otohoplites sp. n. sp., Protohoplites latisulcatus, Protohoplites michelinianus, Protohoplites gallicus, Protohoplites sp. n. sp., Protohoplites puzosianus
Sonneratia dutempleana d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Pseudosonneratia sp. n. sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
originally entered as "Pseudosonneratia sp. nov."
Otohoplites sp. n. sp. Steinmann 1925 ammonite
"spp. nov." - originally entered as "Otohoplites spp. nov."
Protohoplites sp. n. sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
originally entered as "Protohoplites sp. nov."
Protohoplites puzosianus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
cf. Cleoniceras quercifolium
cf. Cleoniceras quercifolium ammonite
originally entered as "Cleoniceras cf. quercifolium"
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni
"Beudanticeras newtoni" = Roberticeras newtoni Casey 1961 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea glabra
Cucullaea glabra Parkinson 1811 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata, Exogyra latissima
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
Cliona sp. demosponge