Where: England, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 2.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• Formation name remains in informal use but is regarded as obsolete onshore
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: N. E. Pettitt. 1954. A monograph of the Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk. Part 2. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 107:27-52 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 159603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 05.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia parva Pettitt 1954
Orbirhynchia mantelliana d'Sowerby 1826 |