Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 4.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Elmore Formation (Bracklesham Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• authors are erecting this as a new formation, within the Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group. They equate it with the Selsley division, so I'm calling it Lutetian. This unit is 0.42 m thick and part of the "Rimella Canalis Bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; silty, sandy claystone and concretionary, green, blue, silty, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: D. J. Kemp, A. D. King, C. King and W. J. Quayle. 1979. Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 2(2):93-103 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41948: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.07.2004, edited by Lerin Baltzly, Mark Uhen and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Micromaia cf. tuberculata Bittner 1875 spider crab | |
Harpactoxanthopsis lutugini Likharev 1917 crab | |
Panopeus kempi n. sp., Palaeograpsus depressus n. sp.
Panopeus kempi n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 crab
Palaeograpsus depressus n. sp. Quayle and Collins 1981 crab | |
Dromilites simplex, "Dromilites lamarckii" = Basinotopus lamarckii
Dromilites simplex Quayle and Collins 1981 crab | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Demospongiae | |
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Coscinodiscus spp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge | |
Foraminifera | |
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |