Abstract
Microplankton assemblages from the coastal sections at Bournemouth and Hengistbury Head and from a section at Studley Wood in the New Forest have been studied. The dinoflagellate evidence indicates that the Hengistbury Beds above the Nummulites prestwichianus Bed correlate with the lowermost Barton Beds of the typesection, and that the Bracklesham/Barton boundary at Hengistbury Head probably coincides with the position of the Nummulites prestwichianus Bed. The Hengistbury Beds below the Nummulites prestwichianus Bed, the Boscombe Sands and the Bournemouth Marine Beds, correspond with the youngest microplankton zone of the Bracklesham Beds, their time equivalents lying within the interval represented at Prestwich's beds 25-29 at Alum Bay and Fisher's beds XVII–XIX at Whitecliff Bay. The sediments studied from the Studley Wood section also appear to belong to this zone.
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