Where: England, United Kingdom (50.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 5.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• the lettering refers to a system used at Burton's other Barton localities
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, white sandstone and shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: the original reference for this locality is given in a publication called Ringwood Memoir (1902) by Clement Reid, if it can be tracked down
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 42662: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Graphularia wetherelli Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 sea pen | |
unclassified | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus
"Odontaspis macrota" = Otodus macrotus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster branderi heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
"Drillia granulata" = Crassispira (Tripia) granulata
"Drillia granulata" = Crassispira (Tripia) granulata Lamarck 1804 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
"Epitonium" reticulatum wentletrap | |
"Volutospina luctatrix" = Athleta (Volutospina)
"Volutospina luctatrix" = Athleta (Volutospina) volute | |
Sycostoma pyrus snail | |
Fusinus porrectus snail | |
Conomitra parva ribbed mitre | |
Sveltella microstoma snail | |
Xenophora discoidea carrier shell
Xenophora agglutinans Lamarck 1804 carrier shell | |
Rimella rimosa Solander 1766 true conch | |
"Hippochrenes amplus" = Tibia (Hippochrenes) ampla
"Hippochrenes amplus" = Tibia (Hippochrenes) ampla Solander in Brander 1766 snail | |
"Tinostoma dubium" = Teinostoma
"Tinostoma dubium" = Teinostoma snail | |
Natica caillati moon snail | |
Bullinella constricta snail
Bullinella sp. Newton snail | |
"Solariaxis canaliculatus" = Architectonica (Solariaxis)
"Solariaxis canaliculatus" = Architectonica (Solariaxis) sundial | |
Odontostomia hordeola snail
Odontostomia sp. Jefferys 1839 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
"Crassatellites sulcatus" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites sulcatus" = Crassatella clam | |
"Venericardia cf. davidsoni" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) davidsoni, "Venericardia sulcata" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata
"Venericardia cf. davidsoni" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) davidsoni Deshayes 1858 clam
"Venericardia sulcata" = Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata Solander 1766 clam | |
"Solen" sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Mactra compressa" = Spisula compressa
"Mactra compressa" = Spisula compressa Deshayes 1832 clam | |
Nemocardium parile Deshayes 1858 cockle | |
Glycymeris deleta clam | |
"Ostrea plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata
"Ostrea plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata Solander 1766 oyster | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Entaliopsis) striatum tusk shell | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytheridea muelleri ostracod | |
Cythere striatopunctata ostracod | |
Otolithes | |
"Otolithus sp." = Otolithes
"Otolithus sp." = Otolithes Oken 1817 |