Overstrand Hotel Lower Mass: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Isocrania costata (Sowerby 1823)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Cretirhynchia sp. Pettitt 1950
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
Carneithyris subcardinalis (Sahni 1925)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Gisilina jasmundi Steinich 1965
(1 measurement)
Gisilina gisii (Roemer 1841)
Rugia acutirostris Steinich 1965
Dracius carnifex Steinich 1967
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina gracilis (Schlotheim 1813)
recombined as Gyrosoria gracilis
Terebratulina chrysalis (Schlotheim 1813)
Terebratulina faujasii (Roemer 1841)
Terebratulina subtilis Steinich 1965
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Platidiidae
Aemula inusitata Steinich 1968
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Kingena pentangulata (Woodward 1833)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida
Leptothyrellopsis polonicus Bitner and Pisera 1979
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca bronnii (Roemer 1841)
Argyrotheca coniuncta Steinich 1965
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Laqueidae
Dalligas nobilis Steinich 1968
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: lanceolata
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Sidestrand Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,burrows,nodular,gray,white lithified cherty/siliceous chalk
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: white in places nodular chalk with grey lenticular streaks representing burrows and about 15 bands of nodular flint.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Geological Museum, University of Coppenhagen
Metadata
Database number:157716
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-01 11:32:41 Last modified:2014-07-01 11:32:41
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-01 11:32:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

262. M. B. Johansen and F. Surlyk. 1990. Brachiopods and the stratigraphy of the Upper Campanian and Lower Maastrichtian Chalk of Norfolk, England. Palaeontology 33(4):823-872 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Manojlovic]