Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Paradoxica Bed

This bed is as described from north Norfolk. In the Hull-Brigg district, the Paradoxica Bed is a metre or less in thickness, has a rich brachiopod fauna, and is characterised by the bivalve Aucellina and the belemnite Neohibolites ultimus (Gaunt et al., 1992)

Macrofossil Biozonation: M. mantelli Zone, N. carcitanense Subzone

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.

See: Paradoxica Bed (East Anglia)