Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Headon Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
Primary reference: M. E. J. Chandler. 1961. Flora of the Lower Headon Beds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 5(5):93-157 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/H. Sims]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27664: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 17.12.2002, edited by Julia Fosdick
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Liliopsida | |
Limnocarpus forbesi Heer 1862 | |
Angiospermae | |
Brasenia ovula Brongniart 1828 water lily | |
Potamogeton pygmaeus Chandler 1925 pondweed | |