Fish Tooth Beds (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Sussex, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 3.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fish Tooth Beds zone, London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Holotype of n. gen. and sp. Primapus lacki, BMNH A2166, collected in November 1935 by E. M. Venables.

Primary reference: C. J. O. Harrison and C. A. Walker. 1975. A new swift from the Lower Eocene of Britain. Ibis 117(2):162-164 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13298: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 19.02.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• It is mentioned that other fossil birds have been collected from the London Clay.
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Aves
 Apodiformes -
Primapus lacki n. gen. n. sp.
Primapus lacki n. gen. n. sp. Harrison and Walker 1975 swift
holotype
 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
Procuculus minutus n. gen. n. sp.2
Procuculus minutus n. gen. n. sp.2 Harrison and Walker 1977 cuckoo
 Neornithes - Zygodactylidae
Primoscens minutus n. gen. n. sp.2
Primoscens minutus n. gen. n. sp.2 Harrison and Walker 1977 bird
 Neornithes - Lithornithidae
"Pediorallus barbarae" = Lithornis vulturinus2
"Pediorallus barbarae" = Lithornis vulturinus2 Owen 1840 bird
 Charadriiformes - Glareolidae
Precursor parvus n. gen. n. sp.2
Precursor parvus n. gen. n. sp.2 Harrison and Walker 1977 shorebird
Actinopteri
 Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei1
Paralbula casei1 Estes 1969
from lower fish-tooth bed
1Estes 1969; 2Harrison and Walker 1977