Lower Bagshot - Corfe Castle (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 5.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bagshot Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified claystone

• impressions in pipe-clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. E. J. Chandler. 1962. The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. II. Flora of the Pipe-Clay Series of Dorset (Lower Bagshot). British Museum (Natural History) London 1-176 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23396: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 13.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
"Trachycarpus raphifolia" = Flabellaria raphifolia
"Trachycarpus raphifolia" = Flabellaria raphifolia Sternberg 1821 palm