Ballard Head and Studland Bay (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnitella mucronata other zone, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: E. Simon and E. F. Owen. 2001. A first step in the revision of the genus Cretirhynchia Pettitt, 1950. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 71:53-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170230: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae