Where: United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 1.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Inoceramus labiatus zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: A. B. Smith, C. R. C. Paul, A. S. Gale and S. K. Donovan. 1988. Cenomanian and Lower Turonian echinoderms from Wilmington, south-east Devon, England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geological Series 42:1-245 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59713: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster nasutulus heart urchin | |
Cardiotaxis cf. cretacea sea urchin
Cardiaster truncatus sea urchin | |
Conulus subrotondus sea urchin
Conulus castanea sea urchin | |
Discoides infera Desor 1858 sea urchin | |
Prionocidaris granulostriata pencil urchin |