Bournemouth Marine Beds: Lutetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Osmunda lignitum leaf (Giebel 1857)
recombined as Osmunda lignita
unclassified
Limnocarpus forbesi seed/fruit (Heer 1862)
original and current combination Cyperites forbesii
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia couttsiae multi organs Heer 1862
Araucarites sternbergi leaf Goeppert 1850
replaced by Sequoiadendron fordi
Cupressistrobus gardneri multi organs Chandler 1961
Angiospermae - Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Brasenia ovula seed/fruit Brongniart 1828
Angiospermae - Alismatales - Hydrocharitaceae
Stratiotes hantonensis seed/fruit Chandler 1960
Angiospermae - Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton pygmaeus seed/fruit Chandler 1925
Angiospermae - Ericales - Symplocaceae
Epacridicarpum headonense seed/fruit Chandler 1960
Angiospermae - Ericales - Pentaphylacaceae
? Cleyera stigmosa seed/fruit (Ludwig 1859)
Angiospermae - Ericales - Ericaceae
? Ericaceae informal sp. 2 seed/fruit Jussieu 1789
Angiospermae - Ericales - Theaceae
Hordwellia crassisperma seed/fruit (Chandler 1926)
original and current combination Actinidia crassisperma
Angiospermae - Myrtales - Lythraceae
Palaeolythrum bournense seed/fruit Chandler 1960
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
? Nipa burtini seed/fruit (Brongniart 1828)
recombined as Nypa burtini
Sabal sp. leaf Adanson 1763
Calamus daemonorops sterile axis (Unger 1860)
Angiospermae - Poales - Cyperaceae
Caricoidea angulata n. sp. seed/fruit Chandler 1963
Caricoidea obscura seed/fruit (Chandler 1960)
Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Wardenia ? marginata seed/fruit Chandler 1963
Palaeococculus lakensis seed/fruit Chandler 1961
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Protoaltingia hantonensis seed/fruit Chandler 1962
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Eomastixia rugosa seed/fruit (Zenker 1833)
original and current combination Baccites rugosus
Mastixicarpum crassum seed/fruit Chandler 1926
Angiospermae - Caryophyllales
Hantsia pulchra seed/fruit (Chandler 1925)
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurocarpum sp. seed/fruit Reid and Chandler 1933
Angiospermae
Carpolithus arnensis seed/fruit Chandler 1962
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
? Leguminosae indet. seed/fruit de Jussieu
synonym of Fabaceae
Angiospermae - Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Rhamnospermum bilobatum seed/fruit Chandler 1925
Frangula hordwellensis seed/fruit Chandler 1961
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
Carpinus boveyanus seed/fruit (Heer 1862)
Angiospermae - Malvales - Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeaspermum bournense n. sp. seed/fruit Chandler 1963
unclassified
Acrostichum lanzaeanum leaf (Visiani 1858)
Mastixiaceae
? Mastixia glandulosa seed/fruit Chandler 1961
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 5.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Eocene - Middle Eocene
*International age/stage:Lutetian - Lutetian
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lateral to and transgressing over the Bournemouth fresh water beds.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray unlithified sandy,carbonaceous claystone
Secondary lithology:ferruginous,brown,white,yellow unlithified carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Varied. Marine and brackish muds, hard sands, Clays and sands, black sandy clay, carbonaceous lenses, ferruginous and indurated sand.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression,coalified,original carbon,replaced with pyrite,replaced with siderite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:24107
Authorizer:B. Tiffney Enterer:B. Tiffney
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-07-30 17:53:37 Last modified:2018-11-15 15:18:12
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-30 17:53:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6818. M. E. J. Chandler. 1963. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. III. Flora of the Bournemouth Beds, The Boscombe, and the Highcliff Sands 1-169 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/M. Uhen]