Sidestrand 1 (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: subobtusa/obtusa foram zone, Sidestrand Chalk Member, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, lenticular, burrowed, nodular, gray, white, cherty/siliceous chalk

• white in places nodular chalk with grey lenticular streaks representing burrows and about 15 bands of nodular flint.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• Repository: Geological Museum, University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: M. B. Johansen and F. Surlyk. 1990. Brachiopods and the stratigraphy of the Upper Campanian and Lower Maastrichtian Chalk of Norfolk, England. Palaeontology 33(4):823-872 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157717: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 01.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Isocrania costata Sowerby 1823
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Cretirhynchia sp. Pettitt 1950
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Kingena pentangulata Woodward 1833
 Terebratulida -
Leptothyrellopsis polonicus Bitner and Pisera 1979
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca bronnii Roemer 1841
Argyrotheca coniuncta Steinich 1965
 Terebratulida -
Magas chitoniformis Schlotheim 1813
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Gisilina jasmundi Steinich 1965
Rugia acutirostris Steinich 1965
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina chrysalis Schlotheim 1813
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae