Lee-on-the-Solent, Elmore Formation, Unit 9: Lutetian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lituolida
- Haplophragmoididae
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Cribrostomoides sp.
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Lituolida
- Lituolidae
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Ammobaculites sp.
Cushman 1910
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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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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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: | 9 |
| 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 0.35 m thick and part of the "Rimella Canalis Bed" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty,sandy claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination,fine,glauconitic silty,sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sandy clays with thinner beds of silty sand and silty clays, this unit is clay, pale blue-green, laminated, with very fine glauconitic sand. Tabular siltstones at upper contact. | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41951 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 41888 | ||
| Created: | 2004-07-22 10:16:02 | Last modified: | 2004-07-22 13:16:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-22 10:16:02 |
| 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] |