Barton, Chama-bed horizon H (D. Curry collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Hampshire, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 5.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barton Clay Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Chama-bed, horizon H of Burton (1933)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Curry; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1954. New Brachiopoda from the Eocene of England, France and Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Twelfth Series 7:721-728 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190870: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca piperipyxis n. sp. Elliott 1954