Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 3.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wittering Formation (Bracklesham Group), MP 10 (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• oyster bed W14(i), late Ypresian MP 10
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: J. J. Hooker. 1996. Mammals from the Early (late Ypresian) to Middle (Lutetian) Eocene Bracklesham Group, southern England. Tertiary Research 16(1-4):141-174 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41829: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eocenochelus sp.3 Pérez-García et al. 2017 sideneck turtle NHMUK R12773, collected by the late Roy Fowler in 1993 (field number 146). A partial shell including several articulated elements of the carapace (the complete neural series and the medial region of all costals except the eighth left) and the almost complete plastron (lacking the lateral regions of both the hyoplastra and the hypoplastra)
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Trionyx bowerbanki n. sp.1 Lydekker 1889 softshell turtle BMNH R38960 (holotype), an incomplete nuchal
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Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |