Lee-on-the-Solent, Selsey Formation, L3vi (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)

• Kemp calls the Selsey a "division", Hooker, 1996 calls it a formation. This bed is within the "Silt Bed" and has a thickness of 0.99m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, silty, sandy claystone and bioturbated, glauconitic, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, silty, carbonaceous sandstone

• The Selsey formation is fine silty and sandy, glauconitic clay. This bed is dark green-grey silty glauconitic sand with Nipa & lignite fragments, mollusc moulds and vertebrate remains at outcrop, intensely bioturbated at upper contact with rare black pebbles

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. Kemp. 1985. The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants). Tertiary Research 7(2):35-44 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42087: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.07.2004

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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
"Nipa sp." = Nypa
"Nipa sp." = Nypa van Wurmb 1779 palm
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758