Wadhurst Clay

44 occ. 25 taxa (7 genera) 1 countries

Description

The Wadhurst Clay Formation is a geological unit which forms part of the Wealden Group and the middle part of the now unofficial Hastings Beds. These geological units make up the core of the geology of the High Weald in the English counties of West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent.

Genera

7 genera

Iguanodon

Dinosaurs

Valid 4 occ. · 155 Ma

Megalosaurus

Dinosaurs

Valid 2 occ. · 206 Ma

Hylaeosaurus

Dinosaurs

Valid 1 occ. · 139 Ma

Polacanthus

Dinosaurs

Valid 1 occ. · 139 Ma

Baryonyx

Dinosaurs

Valid 1 occ. · 139 Ma

Pterodactylus

Pterosaurs

Valid 1 occ. · 201 Ma

Ornithodesmus

Pterosaurs

Valid 1 occ. · 137 Ma

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Bexhill Brick Pit below Little Higher Wood in East Sussex, England. The cliff shows the layers of strata of the Hastings Beds with grey areas of Wadhurst Clay needed for the bricks and tiles. The buff/brown areas are sandstones. © Patrick Roper (https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/120958) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikipedia

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Geological group / Member

Wealden 43

Wealden / Lower 1

Top countries

🇬🇧 United Kingdom 44

Depositional environments

Wet floodplain 19

Small lake 15

Terrestrial indet. 10

Top collectors

D. Brockhurst 19

C. Dawson 8

A. Prowse 2

S. H. Beckles 2

Dawson 1

S. Beckles 1

Collection activity by decade

1840s 1

1860s 1

1870s 2

1880s 10

1990s 24

2000s 2

2010s 1