New Pit Chalk-Beer Roads (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: New Pit Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: unlithified marl

• soft marly chalk, profusely flinty

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38546: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 25.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus cuvieri
Inoceramus cuvieri Sowerby 1814 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina lata