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: Acanthoceras jukesbrownei ammonoid zone, Beer Head Limestone Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lower Chalk, which overlies the Upper Gault. AGE: Middle-Upper Cenomanian. Justified on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Band 13, 2.1 m thick, which lies near the top of the section. PJW: Now Beer Head Limestone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, burrowed, yellow, blue lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
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 81062: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Echinoidea | |
Discoidea cylindrica sea urchin | |
Holaster trecensis sea urchin
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836 sea urchin | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Calycoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Eucalycoceras gothicum Kossmat 1895 ammonite
Acanthoceras sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Acanthoceras jukesbrownei Spath 1926 ammonite | |
Austiniceras austeni Sharpe 1855 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula inflata scallop | |
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma
"Lima (Plagiostoma) sp." = Plagiostoma Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus Packard 1922 scallop | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 |