Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 4.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Barton Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 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 42586: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bulla attenuata snail | |
"Bulla elliptica" = Cylichna elliptica
"Bulla elliptica" = Cylichna elliptica Sowerby 1824 snail | |
Trochita aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Rimella rimosa Solander 1766 true conch | |
Xenophora umbilicaris carrier shell | |
Cancellaria evulsa snail | |
"Turritella imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Turritella imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium striatum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula ? similis" = Nucula (Pronucula) similis
"Nucula ? similis" = Nucula (Pronucula) similis Cossmann and Pissarro 1904 nut clam | |
Crassatella ? sulcata Solander 1866 clam | |
"Cardita sulcata" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata
"Cardita sulcata" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata Solander 1766 clam | |
"Lucina elegans" = Monitilora (Monitilora) elegans, "Strigilla rigaultiana" = Divalinga (Stchepinskya) rigaultiana
"Lucina elegans" = Monitilora (Monitilora) elegans Defrance 1823 clam
"Strigilla rigaultiana" = Divalinga (Stchepinskya) rigaultiana Deshayes 1858 clam | |
"Cardium porulosum" = Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum, Nemocardium turgidum
"Cardium porulosum" = Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum Solander 1766 cockle | |
"Clavagella coronata" = Stirpulina coronata
"Clavagella coronata" = Stirpulina coronata Deshayes 1824 clam | |
"Pecten carinatus" = Chlamys carinata, "Pecten reconditus" = Mimachlamys reconditus
"Pecten carinatus" = Chlamys carinata Sowerby 1828 scallop
"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 |