Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 0.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Turrilites acutus ammonoid zone, Lower Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lower Chalk, which overlies the Upper Greensand (Late Albian). AGE: Late Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Turrilites acutus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 1 m thick exposure of chalk overlying Upper Greensand.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
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 82855: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Schloenbachia aff. subarians ammonite | |
Calycoceras paucinodatum ammonite | |
"Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus
"Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite | |
Stomohamites simplex ammonite | |
Scaphites obliquus Sowerby 1813 ammonite |