Whorn's Place pit, Cuxton (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Terebratulina lata brachiopod zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• "Upper Chalk" now the White Chalk Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1961. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part III. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 27-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113109: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete cf. formosum Reid 1959 glass sponge