Lower Headon of Colwell Bay (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• Estuarine

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
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Angiospermae
 Caryophyllales - Droseraceae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Brasenia ovula Brongniart 1828 water lily
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton pygmaeus Chandler 1925 pondweed
 Alismatales - Hydrocharitaceae