Lee-on-the-Solent, Selsey Formation (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• the authors call this the "Nummulites variolarius Bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, sandy claystone

• shelly sandy clay, glauconitic, with abundant molluscs and nummulites

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 41966: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
fragments
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet. foram
agglutinating forams
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Discorbacea - Bagginidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina gibba d'Orbigny 1832
Guttulina problema d'Orbigny 1826
G. problema-lactea
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Brachycytheridae
 Podocopida - Leguminocythereidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fragments
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
fragments