Totton, Upper Bracklesham Beds, Hampshire (Eocene to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Bracklesham Beds Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, green, argillaceous sandstone and yellow, sandy marl

• 20 ft of dark green glauconitic clayey sands followed by ten feet of yellowish sandy marls were exposed

Size class: macrofossils

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 42664: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Miliobatis sp.
Miliobatis sp.
dental fragments
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus crassus
Paracyathus crassus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
teeth
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Orbituliporidae
Orbitulipora petiolus
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
fragments