Bognor (Edwards collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 3.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: not stated

Primary reference: F. E. Edwards. 1849. A monograph of the Eocene Mollusca, or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England. Part I. Cephalopoda. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 2:1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165978: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2015, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus centralis" = Eutrephoceras (Simplicioceras) centrale, "Nautilus regalis" = Euciphoceras regale
"Nautilus centralis" = Eutrephoceras (Simplicioceras) centrale Sowerby 1812 nautiloid
"Nautilus regalis" = Euciphoceras regale Sowerby 1823 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
"Nautilus sowerbyi" = Deltoidonautilus sowerbyi
"Nautilus sowerbyi" = Deltoidonautilus sowerbyi Wetherell 1843 nautiloid
Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
"Chelone declivis n. sp." = Argillochelys convexa
"Chelone declivis n. sp." = Argillochelys convexa Owen 1841 turtle