Lewes Nodular Chalk-Beer Head 1: Turonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Psychocidaridae
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Tylocidaris clavigera
(Mantell 1822)
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Echinocoridae
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Sternotaxis plana
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Sternotaxis aff. placenta
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Micrasteridae
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Micraster normanniae
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Micraster leskei
d'Orbigny 1855
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| small form | ||||||||||
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Micraster corbovis
Forbes 1850
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Tetrarhynchiidae
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Cretirhynchia octoplicata
(Sowerby 1816)
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| recombined as Cretirhynchia (Lewesirhynchia) octoplicata | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Basiliolidae
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Orbirhynchia aff. reedensis
(Etheridge 1881)
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Cremnoceramus spp.
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Mytiloides labiatoidiformis
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Devon |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 3.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 1.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lewes Nodular Chalk | ||
| Local section: | Terebratulina lata/Sternotaxis plana | Local bed: | Beer Head |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: hard and nodular with common flint, marls and arly chalk intervals. | |||
| Environment: | carbonate indet. | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 38595 | ||
| Authorizer: | F. Fursich | Enterer: | F. Fursich |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-04-26 09:53:38 | Last modified: | 2017-05-19 14:26:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-04-26 09:53:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10260. | 1% | M. A. Woods. 2002. The macrofossil biostratigraphy of the Turonian and Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous, Chalk Group) of southeast Devon. Proceedings of the Geologists´Association 113(4):333-344 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich] |