Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 5.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Becton Bunny Member (Becton Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• "Upper Barton Beds"; this bed is 26 ft thick, the lettering of the beds starts with the lowest Barton beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: In the introduction, Burton says that he is reporting fauna "the horizons of which are known to the author", and states that he has collected 480 specimens. It is also clear that he is pulling from other sources, some published (in difficult to obtain British journals), some not. It's difficult to tell which are his and which aren't. This is not a definitive source for this collection, but I think it's a reasonable place to start.
Primary reference: E. S.t. J. Burton. 1933. Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 44:131-167 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42648: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Tubothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
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Gymnolaemata | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia oblonga clam | |
"Divaricella rigaultiana" = Divalinga (Stchepinskya) rigaultiana
"Divaricella rigaultiana" = Divalinga (Stchepinskya) rigaultiana Deshayes 1858 clam | |
"Gari rudis" = Gari (Garum) rudis
"Gari rudis" = Gari (Garum) rudis Lamarck 1806 clam | |
Cyrena gibbosula clam | |
"Mactra compressa" = Spisula compressa
"Mactra compressa" = Spisula compressa Deshayes 1832 clam | |
Callista transversa venus clam | |
Corbula cuspidata clam
Corbula cf. lamarcki clam | |
Mytilus affinis Sowerby 1829 mussel | |
Limopsis scalaris clam | |
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Trinacria deltoidea clam | |
"Chlamys recondita" = Mimachlamys reconditus
"Chlamys recondita" = Mimachlamys reconditus Solander 1766 scallop | |
"Ostrea cf. tenera" = Crassostrea tenera
"Ostrea cf. tenera" = Crassostrea tenera Sowerby 1819 oyster | |
Pteria (Avicula) media pearl oyster | |
"Nucula similis" = Nucula (Pronucula) similis
"Nucula similis" = Nucula (Pronucula) similis Cossmann and Pissarro 1904 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Odontostomia hordeola snail
Odontostomia sp. Jefferys 1839 snail | |
"Solariaxis canaliculatus" = Architectonica (Solariaxis)
"Solariaxis canaliculatus" = Architectonica (Solariaxis) sundial | |
Ringicula parva snail | |
Eulima sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Bayania hordacea snail | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Natica labellata Lamarck 1804 moon snail | |
Teinostoma dubium snail | |
Drillia sp. Gray 1838 snail | |
Olivella branderi olive snail | |
"Ancilla buccinoides" = Spirancilla buccinoides
"Ancilla buccinoides" = Spirancilla buccinoides Lamarck 1802 snail | |
"Uxia elongata" = Unitas elongata
"Uxia elongata" = Unitas elongata Nyst 1843 snail | |
"Pollia (Tritonidea) lavata" = Cantharus (Pollia)
"Pollia (Tritonidea) lavata" = Cantharus (Pollia) true whelk | |
Clavilithes elongatus snail
Clavilithes sp. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Bullinella sp. Newton snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilidae indet. de Blainville 1825 | |
Ostracoda | |
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Actinopteri | |
"Otolithus (Berycidarum) bartonensis" = Eosolea bartonensis
"Otolithus (Berycidarum) bartonensis" = Eosolea bartonensis Frost 1934 flatfish | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Otolithus (Percidarum) aff. plebeius" = Percidarum
"Otolithus (Percidarum) aff. plebeius" = Percidarum bony fish | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster branderi heart urchin | |
Otolithes | |
"Otolithus concavus" = Otolithes
"Otolithus concavus" = Otolithes |