Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Enthorpe Oyster Beds

Comprises 0.1-0.25 m of relatively soft chalk with pycnodonteine oysters and brachiopods (Wood & Smith, 1978), but typically much less well developed than the underlying Ulceby Oyster Bed (Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: S. plana Zone

Correlation: see Correlation with other UK Chalk Group successions

References

GAUNT, G D, FLETCHER, T P & WOOD, C J. 1992. Geology of the country around Kingston-upon-Hull and Brigg. Memoir of the British Geological Survey.

WOOD C J & SMITH, E G.1978. Lithostratigraphical classification of the Chalk in North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 42(2), 263-287.