Where: Surrey, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woolwich & 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: marginal marine

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 23326: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 11.07.2002

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