Lewes (Cortestudinarium Zone) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 0.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micraster cortestudinarium other zone, Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• 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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: N. E. Pettitt. 1950. Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk. Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk, Part I 103(450):1-26 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159242: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 29.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Cretirhynchia octoplicata" = Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) octoplicata, Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) protoexsculpta n. sp.
"Cretirhynchia octoplicata" = Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) octoplicata Sowerby 1816