Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 2.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: White Limestone Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the White Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not reported. AGE: Santonian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: British Museum (Natural History).
Primary reference: H. L. Abbass. 1962. The english Cretaceous Turritellide and Mathildidae (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 7(6):175-196 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86970: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Turritella) unicarinata Woodward 1833 turret shell |