East Wittering, Bracklesham Bay, Wittering Formation W14(i): MP 10, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ailuravus michauxi Hartenberger 1975
4 specimens
right M1/2, right p4, 2 right m1/2
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Nannopithex zuccolae Godinot et al. 1992
1 specimen
right m3
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx bowerbanki n. sp. Lydekker 1889
Gramann 1956
nomen dubium belonging to Trionychidae
BMNH R38960 (holotype), an incomplete nuchal
Eurycephalochelys fowleri n. gen., n. sp. Moody and Walker 1970
Moody and Walker 1970 1 specimen
synonym of Axestemys vittata
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Eocenochelus sp. Pérez-García et al. 2017
Pérez-García and Chapman 2017
NHMUK R12773, collected by the late Roy Fowler in 1993 (field number 146). A partial shell including several articulated elements of the carapace (the complete neural series and the medial region of all costals except the eighth left) and the almost complete plastron (lacking the lateral regions of both the hyoplastra and the hypoplastra)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:West Sussex
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° North, 3.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:MP 10
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bracklesham Formation:Wittering
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: oyster bed W14(i), late Ypresian MP 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:41829
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, M. Uhen Enterer:E. Leckey, M. Uhen, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-07-21 09:15:13 Last modified:2020-05-20 16:38:04
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 09:15:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10367. J. J. Hooker. 1996. Mammals from the Early (late Ypresian) to Middle (Lutetian) Eocene Bracklesham Group, southern England. Tertiary Research 16(1-4):141-174 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

64286 F. Gramann. 1956. Schildkröten aus dem Malnienton von Borken (Niederhessische Senke) (Trionyx, Anosteira). Notizblatt des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung zu Wiesbaden 84:16-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
43812 R. T. J. Moody and C. A. Walker. 1970. A new trionychid turtle from the British lower Eocene. Palaeontology 13(3):503-510 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
62846 A. Pérez-García and S. Chapman. 2017. Identification of Podocnemididae (Pleurodira) in the British record by the first specimen of the coastal Eocenochelus recognized outside Continental Europe. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 128(5-6):757-763 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]