East Wittering, Bracklesham Bay, Wittering Formation W14(i) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wittering Formation (Bracklesham Group), MP 10 (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• oyster bed W14(i), late Ypresian MP 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: 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 41829: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ailuravus michauxi Hartenberger 1975 rodent
right M1/2, right p4, 2 right m1/2
 Primates - Omomyidae
Nannopithex zuccolae Godinot et al. 1992 tarsier
right m3
Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Eocenochelus sp.3 Pérez-García et al. 2017 sideneck turtle
NHMUK R12773, collected by the late Roy Fowler in 1993 (field number 146). A partial shell including several articulated elements of the carapace (the complete neural series and the medial region of all costals except the eighth left) and the almost complete plastron (lacking the lateral regions of both the hyoplastra and the hypoplastra)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Eurycephalochelys fowleri n. gen. n. sp." = Axestemys vittata2, Trionyx bowerbanki n. sp.1
"Eurycephalochelys fowleri n. gen. n. sp." = Axestemys vittata2 Pomel 1847 softshell turtle
Trionyx bowerbanki n. sp.1 Lydekker 1889 softshell turtle
BMNH R38960 (holotype), an incomplete nuchal