The London Clay Flora - Bawdsey (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast, charcoalification, original carbon, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. E. J. Chandler. 1961. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. I. Palaeocene Floras. London Clay Flora (Supplement) 1-354 [B. Tiffney/J. Bean/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22741: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Jessica Bean on 24.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Iodes davisi n. sp.
Iodes davisi n. sp. Chandler 1961 white pear
 Cornales - Cornaceae
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis Reid and Chandler 1933 dogwood