Roydon (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 2.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Headon Hill Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Middle Headon Beds

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. W. Judd. 1881. On the occurrence of the remains of a cetacean in the lower Oligocene strata of the Hampshire Basin. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:708-709 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56937: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
"Zygorhiza juddi" = Balaenoptera juddi
"Zygorhiza juddi" = Balaenoptera juddi Seeley 1881 whale