Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barton Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• This bed is part of the "London Clay" sequence recognized by Prestwich and Bowerbank. I have correlated it with Bosma's naming system as the Barton Beds.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pebbly, shelly/skeletal, sandy, calcareous claystone and ferruginous, brown, gray, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40537: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 24.06.2004, edited by Austin Hendy

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