Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Turonian to Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "The specimens were found in the chalk detritus, and, therefore, may have come from the Upper or Lower Chalk or Chalk-marl; but more probably from the Upper Chalk". The Charing Cross Pit exposes the Glynde Marl and Southerham Marl from around the contact between the New Pit Chalk and Lewes Nodular Chalk (present day Middle Chalk-Upper Chalk contact). This modern pit is not necessarily the same as the mid-19th century locality, but the evidence suggests a Middle or Late Turonian age.
Environment/lithology: lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by William Harris; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. H. Withers. 1913. Cirripedes from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of Cambridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 83:937-948 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211560: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
"Scalpellum tuberculatum n. sp." = Titanolepas tuberculata
"Scalpellum tuberculatum n. sp." = Titanolepas tuberculata Darwin 1851 barnacle |