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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
"Nipa sp." = Nypa
"Nipa sp." = Nypa van Wurmb 1779 palm | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 |