Lee-on-the-Solent, Selsey Formation, L6i (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

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 "Miocardia Bed" and has a thickness of 0.60m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, silty, sandy claystone and concretionary, glauconitic, silty, calcareous, carbonaceous sandstone

• The Selsey formation is fine silty and sandy, glauconitic clay. This bed is grey-blue silty sand with fine glauconite, large (1 dm diam) calcareous concretions often containing bored drifted logs near the upper contact.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42105: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites variolarius, Nummulites sp.
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula spp.
Corbula spp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Lentipecten sp.
Lentipecten sp. Marwick 1928 scallop