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==Fossils== [[File:Hamitidae Fossil in Wear Bay in Folkestone in England.jpg|thumb|[[Hamitidae]] fossil in Gault Clay on a beach in [[Folkestone]], Kent]] Gault yields abundant marine [[fossil]]s, including [[ammonite]]s (such as ''Hoplites'', ''Hamites'', ''[[Euhoplites]]'', ''Anahoplites'', and ''Dimorphoplites''), [[Belemnoidea|belemnites]] (such as ''Neohibolites''), [[Bivalvia|bivalves]] (such as ''Birostrina'' and ''Pectinucula''), [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] (such as ''Anchura''), solitary [[coral]]s, [[fish]] remains (including [[shark]] teeth), scattered [[crinoid]] remains, and [[crustacean]]s (such as the [[crab]] ''Notopocorystes''). Terrestrial fossils that have been found at Gault include fossil wood, a dinosaur (''[[cf.]]'' ''[[Acanthopholis]]''),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lomax|first1=Dean R.|last2=Tamura|first2=Nobumichi|year=2014|title=Dinosaurs of the British Isles|publisher=Siri Scientific Press|isbn=9780957453050|at=367}}</ref> and [[pterosaur]]s, including [[Azhdarchoidea|azhdarchoids]], [[Ornithocheiridae|ornithocheirids]], and the indeterminate [[Pterodactyloidea|pterodactyloid]] "Pterodactylus" ''daviesii''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Roy E.|last2=Martill|first2=David M.|year=2022|title=First occurrence of azhdarchoid pterosaurs in the Gault Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian) of England, United Kingdom with a brief review of Gault pterosaurs|journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association|volume=133|issue=6|pages=491-500|doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.06.003}}</ref> Several pterosaur fossil remains from the overlying [[Cambridge Greensand]] may have been reworked from the underlying Gault.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Unwin|first=D.M.|date=2011-05-11|title=An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England|journal=Fossil Record|volume=4|pages=189-221|doi=10.1002/mmng.20010040112|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mmng.20010040112|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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