WKfsw7 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.8° N, 24.1° E (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• PJW: Was given as Folkestone member, but it is now a formation. Folkestone overlies the Sandgate formation and underlies the Gault formation. It seems to span the Late Aptian to Early Albian; as this was reported as Albian, I changed it to Early Albian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray shale

• fossils found in nodules in the bed

Size class: macrofossils

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 1827: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeocorystidae
"Eucorystes broderipi" = Joeranina broderipi, Notopocorystes stokesi
"Eucorystes broderipi" = Joeranina broderipi Mantell 1844 crab
Notopocorystes stokesi Mantell 1844 crab
 Decapoda - Homolidae
"Homolopsis edwardsi" = Homolopsis edwardsii
"Homolopsis edwardsi" = Homolopsis edwardsii Bell 1863 crab
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Protanisoceras sp. n. sp. ammonite
originally entered as "Protanisoceras sp. nov."
Protanisoceras acteon d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Protanisoceras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Sonneratia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras sp. Hitzell 1902 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Cleoniceras floridum n. sp. ammonite
"floridum sp. nov." - originally entered as "Cleoniceras floridum sp. nov."
Cleoniceras sp. n. sp. Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
"spp. nov." - originally entered as "Cleoniceras spp. nov."
Cleoniceras inornatum Casey 1954 ammonite
Cleoniceras cleon d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes genti moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni
"Inoceramus salomoni" = Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni d'Orbigny 1850 clam