Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 2.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: cast, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: 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 22814: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 26.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Carpolithus sp. Linnaeus 1768 | |
Jenkinsella apocynoides Reid and Chandler 1933 |