Also known as "London Clay" (Bed 29)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Prestwich's stratigraphy is a bit screwy. No one else has recognized the London Clay in this area. This bed is probably part of the Barton Beds (Bosma, 1974). Gardner et al. are the first I've found who call these Barton Beds.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, brown claystone and pebbly, green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39695: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.06.2004

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