Southampton Water Works (new pit) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Offaster pilula and Actinocamax quadratus other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 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 159325: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 31.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia granum
Orbirhynchia granum Pettitt 1954
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Cretirhynchia intermedia" = Cretirhynchia (Harmignirhynchia) intermedia
"Cretirhynchia intermedia" = Cretirhynchia (Harmignirhynchia) intermedia Pettitt 1950