HOMEPAGE

INTRODUCTION FOSSILS CHALK GROUP LINKS

 

REFERENCES

 
* CHALK GROUP * CRUSTACEANS * CRINOIDS
* ASTEROIDS * OPHIUROIDS * ECHINOIDS
* VERTEBRATES    

 

CHALK GROUP

DIXON, F.  1850.  The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex, (private publication) London.

GASTER, C. T. A.   1924.  The Chalk of the Worthing District of Sussex, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 35, 89-110.

GASTER, C. T. A.  1937.  The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Sussex, Part I:  West Central Area - Arun Gap to valley of the Adur, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 48, 356-373.

GASTER, C. T. A.  1939.  The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Sussex, Part II:  Eastern Area - Seaford to Cuckmere Valley and Eastbourne with zonal map, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 50, 510-526.

GASTER, C. T. A.  1944.  The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Sussex, Part III:  Western Area - Arun Gap to the Hampshire boundary with zonal map, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 55, 173-188.

GASTER, C. T. A.  1951.  The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Sussex, Part IV:  East Central Area - between the valley of the Adur and Seaford with zonal map, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 62, 31-64.

JUKES-BROWNE, A. J., and HILL, W.  1903.  The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, volume 2: The Lower and Middle Chalk of England, Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, HMSO, London (568 pages).

JUKES-BROWNE, A. J., and HILL, W.  1904.  The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, volume 3: The Upper Chalk of England, Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, HMSO, London (566 pages).

MANTELL, G.A.  1822.  The Fossils of the South Downs or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, London.

MORTIMORE, R. N.  1986.  Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous White Chalk of Sussex, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, London, 97, 97-139.

MORTIMORE, R. N.  1997.  The Chalk of Sussex and Kent, Geological Association Field Guide No. 57, Geologist's Association, London (193 pages).

MORTIMORE, R. N., WOOD, C. J., and GALLOIS, R.W.  2001.  British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 23, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough (558 pages).

ROBINSON, N. D.  1986.  Lithostratigraphy of the North Downs, southeast England, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, London, 97, 141-170.

ROWE, A. W.  1900.  The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast, I: Kent and Sussex, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 16, 289-368.

ROWE, A. W.  1901.  The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast, II: Dorset, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 17, 1-76.

ROWE, A. W.  1903.  The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast, III: Devon, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 18, 1-151.

ROWE, A. W.  1904.  The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast, IV: Yorkshire, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 18, 193-296.

ROWE, A. W.  1908.   The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast, V: The Isle of Wight, Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, 20, 209-352.

ROWE, A. W.   1929 (posthumously).  The Zones of the White Chalk of Lincolnshire, Naturalist, 875, 411-439.

SMITH, A.B. and BATTEN, D.J. (Ed.s).  2002.  Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2, Palaeontological Association, London.

 

CRUSTACEANS

BELL, T.  1863 A monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain. Pt. II, Crustacea of the Gault andGreensand. Palaeontographical Society, London.

COLLINS, J. S. H., & WILLIAMS, R. J.  2004.  A new genus of necrocarcinid crab (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Upper Cretaceous of England, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 31, 33-35 [Link]

DIXON, F.  1850.  The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex, (private publication) London.

MORRIS, S. F. 1980.  Catalogue of the Type and Figured Specimens of Fossil Crustacea (excl. Ostracoda, Chelicerata, Myriapoda and Pycnogonida in the BritishMuseum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London.

WITHERS, T. H.  1935.  Catalogue of fossils Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, II, Cretaceous, British Museum (Natural History), London.

WOODS, H.  1922.  A monograph of the fossil macurous Crustacea of England, Palaeontographical Society.

WOODWARD, H. 1878.  On Meyeria Willettii, a new macrurous Crustacea from the Chalk of Sussex. Geological Magazine, Decade 2, 5, 556-558.

WRIGHT, C. W., & COLLINS, J. S.  1972.  British Cretaceous Crabs, Palaeontographical Society.

 

CRINOIDS

RASMUSSEN, H.W.  1961.  A monograph on the Cretaceous Crinoidea.  Biologiske Skrifter udgivet af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 12 (1).

STAINFORTH, R.M.  1938.  Unitacrinus westfalicus (Schlüter) from the Yorkshire Senonian.  Proceedings of the Geologist's Association, L, 1, 101-104.

WRIGHT, C. W., and SMITH, A. B.  2002Echinoderms, in: Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Smith A. B. & Batten D.J. (Ed.s), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2 , Palaeontological Association, London.

 

ASTEROIDS

GALE, A.S.  1987.  Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Late Cretaceous of north-west Europe.  1.  Introduction.  The genera Metopaster and RecurvasterMesozoic Research, 1, 1-69.

GALE, A.S.  1986.  Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Late Cretaceous of north-west Europe.  2.  The genera Calliderma, Crateraster, Nymphaster and ChomatasterMesozoic Research, 1, 151-186.

GALE, A.S.  1989.  Migration and evolution in Late Cretaceous Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from north-west Europe.  Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 100 (3), 281-291.

RASMUSSEN, H.W.  1950.  Cretaceous Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea with special reference to the species found in Denmark.  Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse, 77, 1-134.

SLADEN, W.P., and SPENCER, W.K.  1891-1908.  A monograph of the British fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations, Vol. II, the Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea.  Palaeontographical Society.

WRIGHT, C. W., and SMITH, A. B.  2002Echinoderms, in: Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Smith A. B. & Batten D.J. (Ed.s), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2, Palaeontological Association, London.

WRIGHT, C.W., and WRIGHT, E.V.  1940.  Notes on Cretaceous Asteroidea.  Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 96, 231-248.

 

OPHIUROIDS

RASMUSSEN, H.W.  1950.  Cretaceous Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea with special reference to the species found in Denmark.  Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse, 77, 1-134.

SLADEN, W.P., and SPENCER, W.K.  1891-1908.  A monograph of the British fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations, Vol. II, the Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea.  Palaeontographical Society.

WRIGHT, C. W., and SMITH, A. B.  2002Echinoderms, in: Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Smith A. B. & Batten D.J. (Ed.s), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2, Palaeontological Association, London.

 

ECHINOIDS

DURHAM, J.W., FELL, H. B., FISCHER, A. G., KIER, P. M., MELVILLE, R. V., PAWSON, D. L., and WAGNER, C. D.  1966.  Echinoids, in: Moore (Ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part U: Echinodermata 3, Lawrence, Kansas.

ROWE, A. W.  1899.  An analysis of the genus Micraster, as determined by rigid zonal collecting from the zone of Rhynchonella cuvierei to that of Micraster coranguinumQuarterly Journal of the Geological Society London, 55, 494-547.

SMITH, A. B., and WRIGHT, C. W.  1989-2000.  British Cretaceous Echinoids, Palaeontographical Society.

STOKES, R. B.  1977.  The echinoids Micraster and Epiaster from the Turonian and Senonian of England, Palaeontology, 20, 805-821.

WRIGHT, C. W., and SMITH, A. B.  2002Echinoderms, in: Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Smith A. B. & Batten D.J. (Ed.s), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2, Palaeontological Association, London.

WRIGHT, T.  1864-1882.  A monograph on the British fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations. I, the Echinoidea, Palaeontographical Society.

 

VERTEBRATES

CAPPETTA, H.  1987.  Chondrichthyes II, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii. In Schultze, H.-P. (Ed.). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 3B, Gustav Fischer Verlag.

CARVALHO, M. R. de, and Maisey, J. G.  1996.  Phylogenetic relationships of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax Woodward 1919 (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii).  9–49 in ARRATIA, G. and VIOHL, G., eds. Mesozoic fishes: systematics and paleoecology. Proceedings of the international meeting, Friedrich Pfeil, Munich.

DOUADY C. J., DOSAY, M., SHIVJI, M. S., and STANHOPE, M.J.  2003. Molecular phylogenetic evidence refuting the hypothesis of Batoidea (skates and rays) as derived sharks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26, 215–221.

EVERHART, M. and CAGGIANO, T.  2004.  An associated dentition and calcified vertebral centra of the Late Cretaceous elasmobranch, Ptychodus anonymus Williston 1900.  Paludicola 4 (4),125-136. -  Download

KRIWET, J., KLUG, S., CANUDO, J. I., CUENCA-BESCOVA, G.  2008.  A new Early Cretaceous lamniform shark (Chodrichthyes, Neoselachii).  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 154 (2), 278-290.

MAISEY, J. G., NAYLOR, G. J. P. and WARD, D. J.  2004.  Mesozoic elasmobranches, neoselachian phylogeny and the rise of modern elasmobranch diversity. Pp. 17–56 in ARRATIA, G. and TINTORI, A., eds. Mesozoic fishes, Vol. 3. Systematics, palaeoenvironments and biodiversity. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich.

NAYLOR, G. J. P., MARTIN, A. P., MATTISON, E.G. and BROWN, W.M.  1997.  Interrelationships of lamniform sharks: testing phylogenetic hypotheses with sequence data. 199-218 in, KOCHER, T.D. and STEPHN, C.A. eds. Molecular Systematics of Fishes.  Academic Press, San Diego.

SIVERSON, M.  1999.  A new large lamniform shark from the uppermost Gearle Siltstone (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous) of Western Australia.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Earth Sciences, 90, 49-66.

SHIMADA, K.  2005.  Phylogeny of lamniform sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) and the contribution of dental characters to lamniform systematics Paleontological Research. Palaeontological Society of Japan, 9 (1), 55–72. - Download

SHIRAI, S.  1996.  Phylogenetic interrelationships of neoselachians (Chondrichthyes: Euselachii).  9–34 in STAISSEY, J., PARENTI, L. R. and JOHNSON, G. D, eds. Interrelationships of fishes. Academic Press, San Diego.

STAHL, B. J. 1999.  Chondrichthyes III. Holocephali. Handbook of Paleoichthyology 4. Verlag Dr. Pfeil, Munich.

STEWART, J. D.  1980.  Reevaluation of the phylogenetic position of the Ptychodontidae. Abstracts of Papers, Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 83 (3),154.

STEWART, J. D.  1988.  Paleoecology and the first North American west coast record of the shark genus Ptychodus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 8, 27A.

UNDERWOOD, C.J.  2006.  Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Palaeobiology 32 (2), 215-235.

UNDERWOOD, C.J., and WARD, D.J.  2008.  Sharks of the order Carcharhiniformes from the British Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Palaeontology 51 (3), 509–536

WELTON, B. J. and FARISH, R. F.  1993. The collectors guide to fossil sharks and rays from the Cretaceous of Texas. Horton Printing Company, Dallas.

WINCHELL, C. J., MARTIN, A. P. and MALLATT, J.  2004.  Phylogeny of elasmobranches based on LSU and SSU ribosomal RNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 311, 214–224.

WOODWARD, A.S.  1902-1912.  The Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk.  Palaeontographical Society [Monograph], London.
(originally published as individual parts but often available in major academic libraries as a single bound volume)

WRIGHT, C. W., and SMITH, A. B.  2002Fishes, in: Fossils of the Chalk (2nd Edition), Smith A. B. & Batten D.J. (Ed.s), Palaeontological Field Guide to Fossils, No. 2, Palaeontological Association, London.