Brockenhurst (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: NP 20 nannofossil zone, Brockenhurst Beds Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• late Eocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: C. W. Andrews. 1907. Note on the cervical vertebra of a Zeuglodon from the Barton Clay of Barton Cliff (Hampshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 63(2):124-125 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 86616: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Archaeoceti -
Archaeoceti indet. mammal
listed as a "Zeuglodont"
Coccolithophyceae
 Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae
 Zygodiscales - Zygodiscaceae
Isthmolithus recurvus Deflandre 1954
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
 Syracosphaerales - Rhabdosphaeraceae
  -
Lanternithus minutus Stradner 1962
Reticulofenestra
  -
Reticulofenestra sp. Hay et al. 1966
Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae