The London Clay Flora - Stanmore (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 2.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified claystone

• Clay is assumed - From a sewer tunnel

Preservation: cast, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. E. J. Chandler. 1961. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. I. Palaeocene Floras. London Clay Flora (Supplement) 1-354 [B. Tiffney/J. Bean/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22812: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 26.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum apocynoides