Bed 2r, Folkestone, Kent: Early/Lower Cenomanian, United Kingdom
collected by Kennedy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpulidae indet.
Rafinesque 1835
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o category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Mactromyidae
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Unicardium ringmeriense
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus crippsi
Mantell 1822
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c category | ||||||
| recombined as Gnesioceramus cripsii | |||||||
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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c category | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima (Plagiostoma) globosa
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1 specimen | ||||||
| original and current combination Plagiostoma | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium sp.
(Meek 1865)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Pycnodonte vesicularis
(Lamarck 1806)
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o category | ||||||
| recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Barbatia sp.
Gray 1842
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Avellana sp.
d'Orbigny 1842
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Trochidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Nautilidae
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Eutrephoceras cf. expansum
(Sowerby 1824)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Schloenbachiidae
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Schloenbachia sp.
Neumayr 1875
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Schloenbachia subvarians
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16 specimens | ||||||
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Schloenbachia ventriosa
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Schloenbachia varians
(Sowerby 1817)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Schloenbachia subtuberculata
Gerhardt 1897
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4 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata | |||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Acanthoceratidae
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Mantelliceras costatus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mantelliceras cf. saxbii
(Sharpe 1857)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mantelliceras cantianum
Spath 1926
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mantelliceras tuberculatum
(Mantell 1822)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Sciponoceras sp.
Hyatt 1894
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Turrilitidae
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Hypoturrilites sp.
Dubourdieu 1953
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Gibbithyrididae
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Concinnithyris sp.
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet.
Schmidt 1870
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f category | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.1° North, 1.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° North, 2.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Beer Head Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lower Chalk, which overlies the Upper Gault. AGE: Lower Cenomanian. Justified on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From middle of Band 2, bed r, which lies in the lower part of the section. PJW: Now Beer Head Limestone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Kennedy |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Unknown. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Includes bivalvia, gastropoda, cephalopoda, brachiopoda, and cephalopoda. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 81001 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-25 23:39:57 | Last modified: | 2024-04-22 23:54:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-25 23:39:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27249. | W. J. Kennedy. 1969. The correlation of the lower chalk of south-east England. Proceedings of the Geologists Association 80(4):459-560 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |