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

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

• "Typical Sandy Character" Some fossils in "Concretions" or "Shelly concretions"

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

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Vitis bracknellensis n. sp.
Vitis bracknellensis n. sp. Chandler 1961 grapevine
 Cornales - Cornaceae
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis Reid and Chandler 1933 dogwood
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Palmospermum bracknellense n. sp., "Nipa burtini" = Nypa burtini
Palmospermum bracknellense n. sp. Chandler 1961 palm
"Nipa burtini" = Nypa burtini Brongniart 1828 palm
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark