Lee-on-the-Solent, Selsey Formation, L7iii (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

• small collection-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 2.40 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, silty, sandy claystone and shelly/skeletal, gray, green, silty, sandy claystone

• The Selsey formation is fine silty and sandy, glauconitic clay. This bed is grey-green stiff sandy silty clays with well-preserved bivalves throught, common small gastropods and in the upper part the small fauna is often concentrated together with otoliths in a line of thin sandy lenses.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 42111: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites variolarius
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Psammobiidae
"Psammotaea sp." = Sanguinolaria (Psammotaea)
"Psammotaea sp." = Sanguinolaria (Psammotaea) Lamarck 1818 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula spp.
Corbula spp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp.
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp.
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp.
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam