Lee-on-the-Solent, Elmore Formation, Unit 3: Lutetian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bacillariophyceae
- Centrales
- Eupodiscaceae
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Triceratium sp.
Ehrenberg 1839
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agglutinating forams | ||||||||||
Lituolida
- Haplophragmoididae
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Cribrostomoides sp.
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Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Gaudryina sp.
d'Orbigny 1839
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Ammobaculites sp.
Cushman 1910
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Ammodiscidae
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Ammodiscus sp.
Reuss 1862
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Demospongiae
- Tetralithistida
- Cylindrophymatidae
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Coscinodiscus spp.
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Demospongiae
- Ancorinida
- Geodiidae
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Geodia sp.
Lamarck 1815
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fragments | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Hampshire |
Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 1.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.6° North, 4.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Bracklesham | Formation: | Elmore | Local bed: | 3 |
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: authors are erecting this as a new formation, within the Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group. They equate it with the Selsley division, so I'm calling it Lutetian. This unit is 0.32 m thick. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | silty,sandy claystone |
Secondary lithology: | burrows,glauconitic argillaceous,silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: sandy clays with thinner beds of silty sand and silty clays, this unit is sand, green, silty, glauconitic, clay filled burrows. | |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | core,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 41895 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Subset of collection #: | 41888 | ||
Created: | 2004-07-21 17:34:29 | Last modified: | 2004-07-21 20:34:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-21 17:34:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10858. | D. J. Kemp, A. D. King, C. King and W. J. Quayle. 1979. Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 2(2):93-103 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |