Where: Kent, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the SM
Primary reference: F. M'Coy. 1849. On the classification of some British fossil Crustacea with notices of new forms in the university collection at Cambridge. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 4:161-179 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 147826: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 13.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Hoploparia belli M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster
Hoploparia gammaroides M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster | |
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"Enoploclytia brevimana" = Palaeastacus sussexiensis
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Zanthopsis nodosa M'Coy 1849 crab
Zanthopsis bispinosa M'Coy 1849 crab
Zanthopsis unispinosa M'Coy 1849 crab | |
Basinotopus lamarckii Desmarest 1822 crab | |
Archaeocarabus bowerbanki M'Coy 1849 spiny lobster |