Walton-on-the-Naze, London Clay, Unit 8 (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• primarily clay and silty clay, some nodular and pebbly horizons, some pyritized material, lots of wood fragments. Unit 8 is a silty clay with flint pebbles and a woody pocket.

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

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Taxonomic list

• Harrison, 1980 describes a new species Parvulivenator watteli from "Unit A" of the London Clay (probably a name for the unit to which all these collections (units 1-11) belong). The description in George and Vincent describe this bed as containing bird remains throughout.
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes
 Selachii -
Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenserinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Trichiurides sp. Winkler 1874
 Istiophoriformes - Xiphiidae
Xiphiidae indet. Swainson 1839 sword fish