Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 3.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Upper Member (Bracklesham Beds Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Gardner et al. consider the Bracklesham and Barton beds to be part of the Bagshot Formation, for this locality they describe four beds, some with specific fossils, but don't say which bed corresponds to which unit on their taxonomic list.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. S. Garnder, H. Keeping, and H. W. Monckton. 1888. The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 44:578-635 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42583: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.08.2004, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium striata tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Solarium crenulare" = Trochus (Solarium)
"Solarium crenulare" = Trochus (Solarium) top snail | |
Bulla attenuata snail | |
"Bulla elliptica" = Cylichna elliptica
"Bulla elliptica" = Cylichna elliptica Sowerby 1824 snail | |
"Turritella imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Turritella imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Trochita aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Littorina sulcata periwinkle | |
Natica ambulacrum, Natica patula, Natica ? venusta, Natica labellata, "Sigaretus clathratus" = Sinum
Natica ambulacrum moon snail
Natica patula moon snail
Natica ? venusta moon snail
Natica labellata Lamarck 1804 moon snail
"Sigaretus clathratus" = Sinum moon snail | |
Fusus interruptus snail | |
Cancellaria evulsa snail | |
"Ancillaria canalifera" = Ancilla
"Ancillaria canalifera" = Ancilla olive snail | |
Rimella rimosa Solander 1766 true conch
Terebellum fusiforme Lamarck 1802 true conch | |
"Cassidaria nodosa" = Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa
"Cassidaria nodosa" = Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa Solander in Brander 1766 snail | |
Xenophora umbilicaris carrier shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten reconditus" = Mimachlamys reconditus
"Pecten reconditus" = Mimachlamys reconditus Solander 1766 scallop | |
"Ostrea plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata
"Ostrea plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata Solander 1766 oyster | |
"Pectunculus deletus" = Glycymeris
"Pectunculus deletus" = Glycymeris clam | |
"Cardium porulosum" = Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum, Nemocardium turgidum
"Cardium porulosum" = Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum Solander 1766 cockle
Nemocardium turgidum Solander 1766 cockle | |
Tellina (Macaliopsis) scalariodes tellin clam | |
"Cytherea obliqua" = Pitar (Calpitaria) obliqua
"Cytherea obliqua" = Pitar (Calpitaria) obliqua Deshayes 1825 venus clam | |
"Corbula gallica" = Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica, Corbula lamarckii, Corbula longirostrum, Corbula pisum
"Corbula gallica" = Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam
Corbula lamarckii clam
Corbula longirostrum clam
Corbula pisum clam | |
"Clavagella coronata" = Stirpulina coronata
"Clavagella coronata" = Stirpulina coronata Deshayes 1824 clam | |
"Lucina elegans" = Monitilora (Monitilora) elegans
"Lucina elegans" = Monitilora (Monitilora) elegans Defrance 1823 clam |