Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• highest Chalk of Alum Bay

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1968. Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland. Geological Magazine 105(1):15-22 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113137: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2011

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