Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Headon Beds Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• 10 = "Leaf bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, gray, silty, sandy claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "Time-Averaged" as the reported flora sums several pockets collected over many years and some lateral distance, although all from the same bed.

•In 1852, the Marchioness of Hastings published an almost identical paper to her 1853 report. I used the later English version, but the earlier paper is the more primary reference.

Primary reference: M. Hastings. 1853. On the Tertiary Beds of Hordwell, Hampshire. Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Fourth Series 6(36):1-11 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27663: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Bruce Tiffney on 17.12.2002, edited by Julia Fosdick and Erin Leckey

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