Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 1.9° 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• Upper Chalk remains in informal use, but is obsolete onshore according to the BGS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. 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 159654: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia reedensis Etheridge 1881
Orbirhynchia dispansa n. sp. Pettitt 1954 |