The Carstone (Lower Cretaceous) of Melton, East Yorkshire, and Its Brachiopod Fauna

Summary The stratigraphy of the Melton Carstone is outlined and related to exposures to the north and south. A newly discovered brachiopod fauna, consisting of Burrirhynchia leightonensis, Cyclothyris mirabilis and Modestella festiva, is described and compared with that of the Shenley Limestone (Lower Albian) of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, the only locality from which these species have previously been recorded. B. leightonensis is recorded from the Gault-Lower Greensand junction beds of Wereham Fen House, Norfolk. The ammonite Dimorphoplites cf. hilli, of early Middle Albian age, is recorded from the Melton Red Chalk, and it is concluded that the underlying Carstone is of Lower Albian age.