Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 2.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lower Chalk, which overlies the Upper Greensand (Early Cenomanian). AGE: Late Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Orbirhynchia mantelliana Bed of the Lower Chalk.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic, gray, sandy lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion, replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTOR: W. J. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Unknown, probably the BMNH.
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1970. A correlation of the uppermost Albian and the Cenomanian of South-West England. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 81(4):613-677 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82810: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia mantelliana d'Sowerby 1826 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Schloenbachia sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite | |
"Sciponoceras baculoide" = Sciponoceras baculoides
"Sciponoceras baculoide" = Sciponoceras baculoides Mantell 1822 ammonite | |
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite |