Microvertebrates from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous
Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130 (2019) 752–769 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pgeola Microvertebrates from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Ashdown Brickworks, East Sussex, UK a,b a c d Pernelle Turmine-Juhel , Richard Wilks , David Brockhurst , Peter A. Austen , a,e,f a, Christopher J. Duffin , Michael J. Benton * a School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK b Géosciences, UMR 6118, Université Rennes-1, 263, Avenue du Général-Leclerc, 35000, Rennes, France c 8 Crowmere Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 2BA, UK d 3 Bromley Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 3ES, UK e 146 Church Hill Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 8NF, UK f Earth Sciences Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Ashdown Brickworks, near Bexhill, East Sussex, has produced a large number of vertebrate fossils from Received 14 May 2019 the Wadhurst Clay Formation, part of the Wealden Supergroup (Hastings Group; Valanginian; Lower Received in revised form 16 August 2019 Cretaceous). Here we describe the microvertebrate fauna of the ‘conglomerate bed’, representing a rich Accepted 17 August 2019 sample of taxa. While most of the recovered teeth and bones are abraded, some heavily, most can be Available online 28 August 2019 identified to species level. The taxa include four species of hybodont sharks (Egertonodus basanus, Planohybodus ensis, Polyacrodus parvidens, P.
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