Between Harwich and St Osyth’s (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harwich Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: salvage,

• Dredged offshore

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174665: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon eocaenus n. gen. n. sp.
Coryphodon eocaenus n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1846 pantodont
BMNH M27848 - holotype (right dentary)