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
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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Foraminifera | |
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Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |
Nodosariata | |
Globulina gibba d'Orbigny 1832 | |
Globothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Ostracoda | |
Pterygocythereis cornuta ostracod | |
Leguminocythereis striatopunctata ostracod | |
Bryozoa | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
unclassified | |
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 |