Bed 5, 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: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 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 Band 5, which lies in the middle part of the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, burrowed marl and lithified limestone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Alternations of intensely burrowed marl and 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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81003: 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.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Onchotrochus serpentinus Duncan 1870 stony coral
Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Macropoma sp. Agassiz 1833 coelacanth
Echinoidea
 Calycina - Diplopodiidae
"Pseudodiadema variolare" = Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)
"Pseudodiadema variolare" = Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema) sea urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
Holaster trecensis sea urchin
Asteroidea
  -
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus crippsi Mantell 1822 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha sp. Röding 1798 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) globosa" = Plagiostoma
"Lima (Plagiostoma) globosa" = Plagiostoma file clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina" sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites sp. Dubourdieu 1953 ammonite