Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Woolwich and Reading Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• The Woolwich shell beds are located midway up the Woolwich and Reading FM. It lies over the Reading beds and below the striped loam beds. The woolwich and Reading Fm lies below the Oldhaven and London Clay FMs.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, black, gray claystone and sandstone
Collection methods: bulk, core,
Primary reference: S. Tracey. 1986. Lower Tertiary strata exposed in a temporary excavation at Well Hall, Eltham, south east London. Tertiary Research 7(4):107-123 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8083: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 19.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Vetustocytheridea lignitarum ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Cyrtopleura levesquei Watelet 1851 clam | |
Lentidium arnouldi clam | |
Barbatia depressa clam | |
"Ostrea bellovacina" = Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina, Crassostrea tenera
"Ostrea bellovacina" = Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina Lamarck 1806 oyster
Crassostrea tenera Sowerby 1819 oyster | |
Mytilus mitchelli mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Neritoplica uniplicata, "Pictoneritina pisiformis" = Clithon (Pictoneritina)
Neritoplica uniplicata snail
"Pictoneritina pisiformis" = Clithon (Pictoneritina) snail | |
Viviparus suessoniensis snail | |
Bythinella parkinsoni snail
Hydrobia websteri snail | |
Lapparentia cochlearella snail | |
"Pollia lata" = Cantharus (Pollia)
"Pollia lata" = Cantharus (Pollia) true whelk | |
Brotia melanioides snail | |
Melanopsis antidiluviana snail | |
Tympanotonos funatus horn snail | |
Sigapatella echinulatum slipper shell | |
Ringicula lignitarum snail | |
Valvata sp. Müller 1774 snail | |
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail | |
Planorbis hemistoma snail | |
Anthozoa | |
? Paracyathus sp. Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |