Hayden Barn Cutting, Warnford (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Terebratulina lata brachiopod zone, Middle Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Formation name remains in informal use but is regarded as obsolete onshore

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

• White pure chalk with some flint seams and very shelly beds. Comprises from base: hard indurated chalk with flaser marls (Melbourn Rock) to exceptionally shelly chalk with flints into chalk with well defined marl seams.

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 159644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia heberti n. sp.
Orbirhynchia heberti n. sp. Pettitt 1954