Also known as section TM 267243
Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 1.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: London Clay Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, pebbly, pyritic, silty, carbonaceous claystone and pebbly, shelly/skeletal, silty, carbonaceous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original carbon, replaced with pyrite
Primary reference: W. George and S. Vincent. 1977. Report of field meeting Walton-on-the-Naze and Wrabness, Essex, 2.X, 1976 with notes on the London Clay of Walton. Tertiary Research 1(3):83-90 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38950: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 17.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Selachii indet. shark | |
Osteichthyes | |
Acipenserinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Merlucciidae indet. Gill 1884 | |
Trichiurides sp. Winkler 1874 | |
Xiphiidae indet. Swainson 1839 sword fish |