Dummer's Copse (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 3.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Bracklesham Member (Wittering Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• NP13

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Smith and R. Smith. 2003. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:513-520 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68439: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2007, edited by Juan Benito Moreno

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Amphiperatherium maximum Crochet 1979 marsupial
Peratherium sp. Aymard 1850 marsupial
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium leporinum Owen 1841 odd-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae
Buxolestes sp. Jaegar 1970 placental
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Saturninia "sp. 1" Stehlin 1940 placental
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
 Primates - Omomyidae
Nannopithex zuccolae Godinot et al. 1992 tarsier