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 "Pinna Bed" and has a thickness of 1.80 m.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, silty, sandy claystone and concretionary, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, green, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
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 42110: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Crassatella compressa Lamarck 1806 clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid |