CEPHALOPODA |
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(other than the Ammonoidea) |
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In contrast to the Ammonoidea, Nautiloid cephalopods are relatively infrequent and belong to a few long-ranging genera of world-wide distribution. Calcified beaks of Nautiloids, known as Rhynchoteuthis, have also been found. An example of each is figured below. | ||||||
NAUTILACEA; NAUTILIDAE |
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Eutrephoceras clementinum
(d'Orbigny) - from Folkestone, Kent |
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NAUTILICEAE; NAUTILIDAE |
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Rhynchoteuthis (a calcified Nautilus
beak) - from Folkestone, KENT |
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BELEMNITIDAE; NEOHIBOLITES
Stolley |
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Guards of the belemnite Neohibolites
are ubiquitous in the Gault of Kent and because of their resistant
nature make up a large part of the weathered out fossil debris. Typical
examples from the Albian of Kent are figured below: |
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Neohibolites ernsti Spaeth |
Neohibolites minimus
Miller |
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Late Albian Hysteroceras varicosum Subzone
- near Maidstone, KENT |
Lower Bed VII - Middle Albian lautus/nitidus
Subzoneof Folkestone, KENT |
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thanks to Dr. Simon Mitchell (University of the West Indies)for the identification of N. ernsti |
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Two rare specimens of Neohibolites
minimus var. obtusus Stolley |
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Bed I (ii) - glauconitic
loam immediately above the "sulphur band" |
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uppermost Early Albian: Pseudosonneratia
(Isohoplites) steinmanni subzone of Owen, or |
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lowermost Middle Albian Hoplites (Isohoplites)
eodentatus Subzone of Casey |
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Neohibolites minimus
var. attenuatus Sowerby |
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Folkestone - Late Albian - Bed IX (Hysteroceras
orbignyi Subzone ) 20cm above upper cristatum nodules |
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? Belemnite hoolkets, or perhaps more
likely the chitinous jaw structures of an Annelid polychaete worm known
as Scolecodont (Advice please) |
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Middle Albian - Lower Gault - U. Bed VII (Eu. lautus Zone; A. daviesi Sz) Ex Bulk -Sample F74 | Middle Albian - Lower Gault - Bed II (iv) upper 20cm (Eu. loricatus Zone; A. intermedius Sz) Ex Bulk -Sample F52/91 | |||||
References: | ||||||
a. Geol. Survey Memoir 1966. Geology of the country around Canterbury and Folkestone | ||||||
b. Teichert, et. al.1964. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, Mollusca 3 ... Nautiloidea | ||||||
c. Swinnerton H.H. 1954. A Monograph of British Lower Cretaceous Belemnites; Part V | ||||||
d. Spaeth Chr. 1973. Neohibolites ernsti and its occurrence in the Upper Albian of northwest Germany and England; in Casey & Rawson. 1973. The Boreal Lower Cretaceous | ||||||
e. Whitten D.G.A. with J.R.V. Brooks.1972. The Penguin Dictionary of GEOLOGY | ||||||