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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite | |
Schloenbachia ventricosa, Schloenbachia costata, Schloenbachia nodulisa, Schloenbachia sp., Schloenbachia aff. varians, "Schloenbachia aff. subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata
Schloenbachia ventricosa ammonite
Schloenbachia costata ammonite
Schloenbachia nodulisa ammonite
Schloenbachia sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Schloenbachia aff. varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
"Schloenbachia aff. subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata Gerhardt 1897 ammonite | |
Calycoceras paucinodatum, Calycoceras spinosum, Calycoceras bathyomphalum, Acanthoceras sp., Protacanthoceras sp.
Calycoceras paucinodatum ammonite
Calycoceras spinosum Wright and Wright 1951 ammonite
Calycoceras bathyomphalum Kosmatt 1895 ammonite
Acanthoceras sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Protacanthoceras sp. Spath 1923 ammonite | |
Forbesiceras sp. Kossmat 1897 ammonite | |
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Turrilites scheuchzerianus, "Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus, Turrilites costatus
Turrilites scheuchzerianus Bosc 1801 ammonite
"Turrilites acutus" = Turrilites (Turrilites) acutus Passy 1832 ammonite
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite | |
"Anisoceras cf. plicatile" = Anisoceras plicatilis
"Anisoceras cf. plicatile" = Anisoceras plicatilis Sowerby 1819 ammonite | |
Stomohamites simplex ammonite | |
Scaphites equalis Sowerby 1813 ammonite
Scaphites obliquus Sowerby 1813 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809 clam | |
Pecten beaveri scallop | |
Inoceramus cf. etheridgei, "Inoceramus cf. crippsi" = Gnesioceramus cripsii
"Inoceramus cf. crippsi" = Gnesioceramus cripsii Mantell 1822 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Concinnithyris obesa Sowerby 1823 | |
Echinoidea | |
Conulus castanea sea urchin | |
Discoidea subuculus sea urchin | |
Holaster subglobosus sea urchin |