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

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Elmore Formation (Bracklesham Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• authors are erecting this as a new formation, within the Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group. They equate it with the Selsley division, so I'm calling it Lutetian. This unit is 0.98 m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; silty, sandy claystone and glauconitic, green, sandy claystone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. J. Kemp, A. D. King, C. King and W. J. Quayle. 1979. Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 2(2):93-103 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41893: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2004

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