Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• this bed is 20 ft thick, the lettering of the beds starts with the lowest Barton beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, white sandstone and green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: In the introduction, Burton says that he is reporting fauna "the horizons of which are known to the author", and states that he has collected 480 specimens. It is also clear that he is pulling from other sources, some published (in difficult to obtain British journals), some not. It's difficult to tell which are his and which aren't. This is not a definitive source for this collection, but I think it's a reasonable place to start.
Primary reference: E. S.t. J. Burton. 1933. Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 44:131-167 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42649: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Divaricella colvellensis, "Lucina gibbosula" = Gibbolucina (Gibbolucina) gibbosula
"Lucina gibbosula" = Gibbolucina (Gibbolucina) gibbosula Lamarck 1806 clam | |
Cyrena gibbosula clam
Cyrena deperdita clam | |
"Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum, Corbula cuspidata
"Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum Sowerby 1822 clam
Corbula cuspidata clam | |
Nucula tumescens nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cryptospira simplex margin shell | |
Olivella branderi olive snail | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Potamides cf. variabilis horn snail
Potamides vagus horn snail | |
Bayania hordacea snail | |
Actinopteri | |
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