Herne Bay (London Clay) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.4° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: London Clay Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• "London Clay": the London Clay at Herne Bay consists of just two beds, the Basement Bed and Division B (http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2731)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• the Basement Bed (a glauconitic sand including pyritized wood, many fish teeth, and mollusc casts) and Division B (a laminated shaley clay including pyritized wood) (http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2731)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1885. Note on the generic identity of the genus Esthonyx Cope with Platychoerops Charlesworth (= Miolophus Owen). Geological Magazine 2(8):360-361 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87930: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Platychoerops richardsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Platychoerops richardsoni n. gen. n. sp. Charlesworth 1855 primate