Where: Kent, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 3.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Micraster coranguinum 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• Formation name remains in informal use but is obsolete onshore according to the BGS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
• Sowerby collection
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 159661: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia pisiformis Pettitt 1954 |