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

Also known as Clapham Common

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, concretionary claystone and unlithified siltstone

• Stiffish clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

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 22800: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 26.06.2002, edited by Jessica Bean and Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Wetherellia variabilis Bowerbank 1840 spurge
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
"Odina jenkinsi" = Lannea
"Odina jenkinsi" = Lannea cashew
 Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Icacinicarya reticulata n. sp. Chandler 1961 white pear
Palaeophytocrene ambigua Reid and Chandler 1933 white pear
 Cornales - Cornaceae
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis, Lanfrancia subglobosa
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis Reid and Chandler 1933 dogwood
Lanfrancia subglobosa Reid and Chandler 1933
  - Mastixiaceae
Mastixia parva Reid and Chandler 1933
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark