East Harnham (Actinocamax quadratus zone) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Actinocamax quadratus other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Also known as Offaster pilula echinoid zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

• General group description: Chalk, with or without flint and discrete limestone, marl (calcareous mudstone), sponge, calcarenite, phosphatic, hardground and fossil-rich beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.P. Blackmore; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: T. H. Withers. 1911. Some cirripedes from the chalk of Salisbury, Wilts. Geological Magazine, Decade V 8:21-31 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159324: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 31.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Polymixiiformes - Polymixiidae
"Homonotus dorsalis" = Homonotichthys dorsalis3
"Homonotus dorsalis" = Homonotichthys dorsalis3 Dixon 1850 beardfish
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia granum n. sp.2 Pettitt 1954
Orbirhynchia bella n. sp.2 Pettitt 1954
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Cretirhynchia intermedia n. sp." = Cretirhynchia (Harmignirhynchia) intermedia1
"Cretirhynchia intermedia n. sp." = Cretirhynchia (Harmignirhynchia) intermedia1 Pettitt 1950
Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
"Loricula expansa n. sp." = Parastramentum expansum
"Loricula expansa n. sp." = Parastramentum expansum Withers 1911 barnacle
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
"Scalpellum darwinianum" = Virgiscalpellum darwinianum, Scalpellum longissimum n. sp.
"Scalpellum darwinianum" = Virgiscalpellum darwinianum Bosquet 1854 barnacle
Scalpellum longissimum n. sp. Withers 1911 barnacle