Lee-on-the-Solent, Selsey Formation, L9: Lutetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nummulitidae
Nummulites variolarius
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Globularia spp.
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Clavilithes cylindricus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Sycostoma spp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta spp.
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericor planicostata
original and current combination Venericardia (Venericor)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.6° North, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bracklesham Formation:Selsey Local bed:L9
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Kemp calls the Selsey a "division", Hooker, 1996 calls it a formation. This bed is within the "Brook Bed" and has a thickness of 0.76 m.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic silty,sandy claystone
Secondary lithology:burrows,pyritic,shelly/skeletal,gray,green argillaceous,silty,carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Selsey formation is fine silty and sandy, glauconitic clay. This bed is green-grey sandy clay-silty sand [Again, that's what it says. I shit you not. -EL], fine glauconite; thin burrows filled with pyritic sand, becoming more sandy in middle, frequent shells. Lignite common.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:42113
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:41998
Created:2004-07-23 13:47:48 Last modified:2004-07-23 16:47:49
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-23 13:47:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11062. D. Kemp. 1985. The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants). Tertiary Research 7(2):35-44 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]