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 0.90 m thick and called the "Coral Bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; silty, sandy claystone and shelly/skeletal, green, blue, silty, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, 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 41947: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
"Bacillariophyta indet." = Ochrophyta
"Bacillariophyta indet." = Ochrophyta Cavalier-Smith 1995 | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |
Protozoa | |
Tintinnida indet. Corliss 1955 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Demospongiae | |
Coscinodiscus spp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge | |
Geodia sp. Lamarck 1815 demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam |