Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 0.3° 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 Eggardon Grit (Early Cenomanian). AGE: Late Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper part of Lower Chalk.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but possibly including Welch in Wilson et al. (1958) and Jukes-Brown & Hill (1903). 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 82910: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Holaster trecencis sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus crippsi Mantell 1822 clam | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
"Neithea sexcostatus" = Neithea (Neithea) sexcostata
"Neithea sexcostatus" = Neithea (Neithea) sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cymatoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 nautiloid |