Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• this bed is 5 ft thick, the lettering of the beds starts with the lowest Barton beds, this bed includes two important fossiliferous seams
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: In the introduction, Burton says that he is reporting fauna "the horizons of which are known to the author", and states that he has collected 480 specimens. It is also clear that he is pulling from other sources, some published (in difficult to obtain British journals), some not. It's difficult to tell which are his and which aren't. This is not a definitive source for this collection, but I think it's a reasonable place to start.
Primary reference: E. S.t. J. Burton. 1933. Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 44:131-167 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42643: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Globothalamea | |
Anomalina ammonoides Reuss 1844 | |
Tubothalamea | |
unclassified | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
unclassified | |
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Pinopsida | |
Echinoidea | |
"Echinus" dixoni sea urchin | |
Echinopedina edwardsi sea urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Graphularia wetherelli Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 sea pen | |
Oculina cf. conferta Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Turbinolia humilis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Turbinolia bowerbanki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Truncatulina | |