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

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