Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 2.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holaster planus other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Upper Chalk remains in informal use, but is obsolete onshore according to the BGS
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified chalk
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 159332: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 31.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cretirhynchia minor Pettitt 1950 | |
Orbirhynchia dispansa Pettitt 1954
Orbirhynchia reedensis Etheridge 1881 |