Reading Beds - Reading (Paleocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woolrich & Reading Beds Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Reading beds = fluvial equivalent of nearshore marine Woolwich beds; the two being time eqivalent

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified claystone and unlithified sandstone

• fine fuller's earth, insterstratified with sand

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, 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 23315: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 11.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
  -
Carpolithus sp. Linnaeus 1768
Carpolithus gardneri n. sp. Chandler 1961
 Violales - Flacourtiaceae
? Oncoba variabilis Bowerbank 1840
 Gentianales -
Jenkinsella apocynoides Reid and Chandler 1933
 Dipsacales - Adoxaceae
Sambucus sp. Linnaeus 1753 elder
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae indet. Brown 1818 witch-hazel
Liquidambar palaeocenica n. sp. Chandler 1961 sweetgum
 Saxifragales -
Haloragis sp. Forster and Forster 1775
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Laurocarpum sp. Reid and Chandler 1933 laurel
more than one sps present
 Sapindales - Rutaceae
Phellodendron costatum Chandler 1925 citrus
is really Euodia
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Leguminosites sp. Bowerbank 1840 legume
Leguminosites gardneri n. sp. Chandler 1961 legume
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 pine
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Cupressistrobus gardneri n. sp. Chandler 1961 cypress