Lee-on-the-Solent, Bracklesham Beds (Eocene to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 4.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Selsey Formation (Bracklesham Group), MP 13 to MP 13 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• L3vi-L5ii, MP13/14?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine

• intertidal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: J. J. Hooker. 1996. Mammals from the Early (late Ypresian) to Middle (Lutetian) Eocene Bracklesham Group, southern England. Tertiary Research 16(1-4):141-174 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41806: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 20.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
left ulna
Perissodactyla "indet. 1" Owen 1848 odd-toed ungulate
rolled and broken mandibular symphysis with roots of both canines and p1s and right p2-3
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
""Propalaeotherium" aff. parvulum" = Eurohippus parvulus
""Propalaeotherium" aff. parvulum" = Eurohippus parvulus Laurillard 1849 odd-toed ungulate
right m1/2 and talonid fragment of left m1/2
 Perissodactyla -
? Chalicotherioidea indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
left p2? and left p3?