Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 0.4° 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 1.6 m thick exposure of chalk overlying Upper Greensand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, gray, sandy lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, 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 82857: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.08.2008

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