Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 0.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Basement Bed Member (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 the 30 cm thick Basement Bed of the Lower Chalk.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, sandy conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably 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 82916: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Scaphites equalis Sowerby 1813 ammonite
Scaphites obliquus Sowerby 1813 ammonite | |
Turrilites acutus Passy 1832 ammonite | |
Calycoceras paucinodatum ammonite
Calycoceras spinosum Wright and Wright 1951 ammonite | |
Schloenbachia aff. subvarians, Schloenbachia aff. varians, "Schloenbachia aff. subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata
Schloenbachia aff. subvarians ammonite
Schloenbachia aff. varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
"Schloenbachia aff. subtuberculata" = Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata Gerhardt 1897 ammonite |