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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Wetherellia variabilis Bowerbank 1840 spurge | |
"Odina jenkinsi" = Lannea
"Odina jenkinsi" = Lannea cashew | |
Icacinicarya reticulata n. sp. Chandler 1961 white pear
Palaeophytocrene ambigua Reid and Chandler 1933 white pear | |
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis, Lanfrancia subglobosa
"Dunstania multilocularis" = Cornus multilocularis Reid and Chandler 1933 dogwood
Lanfrancia subglobosa Reid and Chandler 1933 | |
Mastixia parva Reid and Chandler 1933 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark |