The macrofauna of the Vale House Flints Member (Burnham Chalk Formation, Upper Turonian, Late Cretaceous) of Lincolnshire and a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

Abstract

The Burnham Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) in Lincolnshire is particularly well exposed at the large disused quarry at North Ormsby and, in north Lincolnshire, at the Ulceby Vale quarry. Biostratigraphical collecting by the author over a period of more than twenty years, in particular at North Ormsby, has yielded a large and varied fauna from the relatively fossiliferous interval between the Wootton Marls and the Ulceby Marl. This fauna is described herein, and is placed within the context of a reconstructed palaeoenvironmental setting.