Hampstead (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 2.5° 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: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 185907: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.05.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia belli M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster