Harwich (Harwich Stone Band) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harwich Stone band Member (Harwich Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• "NP10"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Smith and R. Smith. 2003. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:513-520 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68434: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliolophus vulpiceps n. sp. Owen 1858 horse
BMNH 44115 (type), a skull and incomplete skeleton still embedded in matrix, BMNH 38801, a damaged cranium
 Perissodactyla -
Teilhardimys musculus Kretzoi and Kretzoi 2000 odd-toed ungulate
LM1, NHMUK.M33478