Chardstock (Davidson coll.): Cenomanian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia wiesti (Quenstedt 1871)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Devon
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 3.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 0.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
Key time interval: Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chalk Formation:Lower Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Formation name remains in informal use but is considered obsolete onshore
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,nodular,phosphatic lithified silty,sandy chalk
Secondary lithology: unlithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcareous glauconitic sand and glauconitic sandy silty chalk with phosphatic nodules
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: Repository: Davidson collection of the British Museum
Metadata
Database number:159615
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-08-05 23:18:05 Last modified:2014-09-08 15:53:08
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-05 23:18:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52150. N. E. Pettitt. 1954. A monograph of the Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk. Part 2. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 107:27-52 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]