Underwood Hall (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chalk Rock Member (Upper Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

• BGS unit description: White chalks (microporous coccolithic limestone) with beds of flint, nodular chalks, hardgrounds and marl seams

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

Primary reference: C. W. Wright. 1979. The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 31:281-332 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175780: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites diana n. sp. Wright 1979 ammonite
Holotype from here, not from Cuckhamsley