Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ostrea lunata other zone, Upper Chalk Formation (Chalk Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Upper Chalk remains in informal use, but is obsolete onshore according to the BGS.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1973. Fossil and recent Cancellothyridacea (Brachiopoda). Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 6:371-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190367: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Gyrosoria gracilis Schlotheim 1813 |