Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Neetleton Pycnodonte Bed

A dark, grey, silty marl, overlying an erosion surface, and containing abundant specimens of the oyster Pycnodonte and fragments of the inoceramid bivalve Inoceramus atlanticus (Gaunt et al., 1992). The marl can be correlated with the marly, oyster-rich lower part of Jukes-Browne Bed 7 in the southern England, and a similar Pycnodonte acme (Pycnodonte Event of Ernst et al., 1983) in northern Germany.

Macrofossil Biozonation: A. jukesbrownei Zone

Correlation: see Correlation with other UK Chalk Group successions

References

ERNST, G, SCHMID, F & SEIBERTZ, E. 1983. Event stratigraphie im Cenoman und Turon von NW-Deutschland. Zitteliana, Vol. 10, 531 - 554.

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.

See: Jukes-Browne Bed 7