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 "Brook Bed" and has a thickness of 0.76 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, silty, sandy claystone and burrowed, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, argillaceous, silty, carbonaceous sandstone

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42113: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.07.2004

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