Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 3.1° 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, concretionary, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: cast, original carbon, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, 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 22743: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Jessica Bean on 24.06.2002, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Vitis bracknellensis n. sp.
Vitis bracknellensis n. sp. Chandler 1961 grapevine | |
"Nipa burtini" = Nypa burtini, Palmospermum bracknellense n. sp.
"Nipa burtini" = Nypa burtini Brongniart 1828 palm
Palmospermum bracknellense n. sp. Chandler 1961 palm | |
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis Reid and Chandler 1933 dogwood | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Odontaspis macrota Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark |