Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 5.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• the lettering refers to a system used at Burton's other Barton localities

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, white sandstone and shelly/skeletal, gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: the original reference for this locality is given in a publication called Ringwood Memoir (1902) by Clement Reid, if it can be tracked down

Primary reference: E. S.t. J. Burton. 1933. Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 44:131-167 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42662: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004

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