Horizon A2, Christchurch Bay (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 5.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barton Clay Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Unit A2 as defined by Burton (1933)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified claystone

• Clay with some lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. S. Quayle, W. J. Quayle; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. J. Quayle and J. S. H. Collins. 1981. New Eocene crabs from the Hampshire Basin. Palaeontology 24(4):733-758 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226653: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Epialtidae
Periacanthus horridus Bittner 1875 spider crab
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Palaeograpsus depressus Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
"Lobonotus vulgatus n. sp." = Cyclocorystes vulgatus
"Lobonotus vulgatus n. sp." = Cyclocorystes vulgatus Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Harpactoxanthopsis lutugini Likharev 1917 crab
 Decapoda -
Typilobus belli n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Montezumellidae
Montezumella scabra n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
Portunites subovata n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia scopuli n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 box crab
 Decapoda - Mathildellidae
Branchioplax concinna Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
 Decapoda - Chasmocarcinidae
"Palaeograpsus bartonensis n. sp." = Orthakrolophos bartonensis
"Palaeograpsus bartonensis n. sp." = Orthakrolophos bartonensis Quayle and Collins 1981 crab