Bed 2r, Folkestone, Kent (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Beer Head Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lower Chalk, which overlies the Upper Gault. AGE: Lower Cenomanian. Justified on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle of Band 2, bed r, which lies in the lower part of the section. PJW: Now Beer Head Limestone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kennedy

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: W. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1969. The correlation of the lower chalk of south-east England. Proceedings of the Geologists Association 80(4):459-560 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81001: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Includes bivalvia, gastropoda, cephalopoda, brachiopoda, and cephalopoda.
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
Concinnithyris sp.
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites sp.
Hypoturrilites sp. Dubourdieu 1953 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras sp.
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras cantianum, Mantelliceras tuberculatum, Mantelliceras cf. saxbii, "Mantelliceras costatus" = Mantelliceras lymense
Mantelliceras cantianum Spath 1926 ammonite
Mantelliceras tuberculatum Mantell 1822 ammonite
Mantelliceras cf. saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
"Mantelliceras costatus" = Mantelliceras lymense Spath 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia sp., Schloenbachia subvarians, Schloenbachia ventriosa, Schloenbachia varians, "Schloenbachia subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata
Schloenbachia sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
"Schloenbachia subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata Gerhardt 1897 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras cf. expansum
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Avellana sp.
Avellana sp. d'Orbigny 1842 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochidae indet.
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Unicardium ringmeriense
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus crippsi" = Gnesioceramus cripsii, Inoceramus sp.
"Inoceramus crippsi" = Gnesioceramus cripsii Mantell 1822 clam
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) globosa" = Plagiostoma
"Lima (Plagiostoma) globosa" = Plagiostoma file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp.
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet.
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge