Lee-on-the-Solent, Elmore Formation, Unit 2: Lutetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Cylindrophymatidae
Coscinodiscus spp.
Demospongiae - Ancorinida - Geodiidae
Geodia sp. Lamarck 1815
fragments
Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Gaudryina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Cribrostomoides sp.
unclassified
Bacillariophyta indet. Engler and Gilg 1924
replaced by Ochrophyta
agglutinating forams
Bacillariophyceae - Centrales - Eupodiscaceae
Triceratium sp. Ehrenberg 1839
fragments
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
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:2
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 1.54 m thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy claystone
Secondary lithology:glauconitic,blue sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy clays with thinner beds of silty sand and silty clays, this unit is clay, pale blue, stiff, increasingly sandy and glauconitic downwards, slickensided in lower part.
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:41894
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:41888
Created:2004-07-21 17:25:43 Last modified:2004-07-21 20:30:53
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 17:25:43
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]