Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 4.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marsh Farm Formation (Bracklesham Group), MP 11 to MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)
• Bed E10: Ostrea tenera bed, Marsh Farm Formation, MP 11/12?
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine
Size classes: macrofossils, 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 41849: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pachynolophus aff. boixedatensis Crusafont Pairo and Remy 1970 odd-toed ungulate left m2-3, right upper molar mesial fragment, rolled left m1/2 talonid fragment
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Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea tenera" = Crassostrea tenera
"Ostrea tenera" = Crassostrea tenera Sowerby 1819 oyster |