Upper Chalk near Rochester (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N.T. Wetherell in 1843; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. B. Sowerby. 1843. Description of a new fossil cirripede from the Upper Chalk near Rochester. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12:260-261 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
"Loricula pulchella n. gen. n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum
"Loricula pulchella n. gen. n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum Sowerby 1843 barnacle