Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Inoceramus labiatus inoceramid zone, Middle Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 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 BGS
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 159633: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia cuvieri d'Orbigny 1847
Orbirhynchia orbignyi n. sp. Pettitt 1954 |