Horizon F, Christchurch Bay (Curry collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit F as defined by Burton (1933), from the uppermost unit of the Barton Clays

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, concretionary, brown, gray claystone

• Brownish grey clay with a layer of concretions and drifts of shell fragments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Curry; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. J. Quayle and J. S. H. Collins. 1981. New Eocene crabs from the Hampshire Basin. Palaeontology 24(4):733-758 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226650: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia dacica
Calappilia dacica Bittner 1893 box crab