The London Clay Flora - Bracknell: Ypresian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Odontaspis macrota (Agassiz 1838)
Casier 1966
original and current combination Otodus macrotus
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis bracknellensis n. sp. seed/fruit Chandler 1961
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Dunstania multilocularis seed/fruit Reid and Chandler 1933
recombined as Cornus multilocularis
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Nipa burtini seed/fruit (Brongniart 1828)
recombined as Nypa burtini
Palmospermum bracknellense n. sp. seed/fruit Chandler 1961
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Berkshire
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 0.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 3.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene - Early/Lower Eocene
*International age/stage:Ypresian - Ypresian
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:London Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary unlithified argillaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Typical Sandy Character" Some fossils in "Concretions" or "Shelly concretions"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,original carbon,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:22743
Authorizer:B. Tiffney, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Bean, M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Tiffney Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-24 12:59:41 Last modified:2002-10-19 21:39:57
Access level:database members Released:2002-06-24 12:59:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6528. M. E. J. Chandler. 1961. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. I. Palaeocene Floras. London Clay Flora (Supplement) 1-354 [B. Tiffney/J. Bean/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

28173 E. Casier. 1966. Faune ichthyologique du London Clay 1-510 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/M. Uhen]