Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Offaster marsupites and Offaster pilula other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• Formation name remains in informal use but is obsolete onshore according to the BGS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 159366: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 01.08.2014
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Cretirhynchia exsculpta" = Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) exsculpta
"Cretirhynchia exsculpta" = Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) exsculpta Pettitt 1950 |