Between Harwich and St Osyth’s: Early/Lower Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon eocaenus n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1846
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Missiaen et al. 2013 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| BMNH M27848 - holotype (right dentary) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Essex |
| Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 1.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.4° North, 1.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Harwich |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collection method comments: Dredged offshore | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 174665 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-23 07:35:12 | Last modified: | 2021-12-06 14:23:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-11-23 07:35:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16226. | R. Owen. 1859. Palaeontology. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature (8th Edition) 17:91-176 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 57047 | P. Missiaen, F. Quesnel, C. Dupuis, J.-Y. Storme, and T. Smith. 2013. The earliest Eocene mammal fauna of the Erquelinnes Sand Member near the French-Belgian border. Geologica Belgica 16(4):262-273 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |