Sheppey (University of Cambridge collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia belli M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster
Hoploparia gammaroides M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Meyeria magma decapod
McCoy, 1849
 Decapoda - Erymidae
"Enoploclytia brevimana" = Palaeastacus sussexiensis
"Enoploclytia brevimana" = Palaeastacus sussexiensis Mantell 1824 decapod
McCoy, 1849
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Zanthopsis nodosa M'Coy 1849 crab
Zanthopsis bispinosa M'Coy 1849 crab
Zanthopsis unispinosa M'Coy 1849 crab
 Decapoda - Dromiidae
Basinotopus lamarckii Desmarest 1822 crab
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Archaeocarabus bowerbanki M'Coy 1849 spiny lobster