Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 5.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• likely come from the Hengistbury Beds, as they are the only ones that contain glauconite

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; glauconitic, black, green, carbonaceous sandstone and glauconitic, brown, gray claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• mammal comes from survey of museum collection, (specimen # GSM.88617)

Primary reference: M.E.J. Chandler. 1960. Plant Remains of the Hengistbury and Barton Beds. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 4(6):191-238 [B. Tiffney/J. Fosdick/J. Fosdick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27721: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Julia Fosdick on 06.01.2003, edited by Erin Leckey

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