Culver Cliff: Cenomanian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Sellithyrididae
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Tropeothyris vectis
Owen 1988
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Isle of Wight |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 1.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chalk | Formation: | West Melbury Marly Chalk | Member: | Glauconitic Marl |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic unlithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | glauconitic,nodular,phosphatic lithified silty,sandy chalk |
| 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,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 153990 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Manojlovic |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-01-21 22:08:37 | Last modified: | 2014-09-08 16:08:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-21 22:08:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49875. | E. F. Owen. 1988. Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 44(2):65-175 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham] |