Copythorne, Hampshire, England: Lutetian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander edwardsii
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sulcifera Deshayes 1832
recombined as Ispharina sulcifera
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia appendiculata (Sowerby 1820)
recombined as Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Macrosolen hollowaysi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar sp. Römer 1857
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula ex gr. striata Lamarck 1801
recombined as Caryocorbula striata
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenidae
Solen sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801
Venericardia planicosta Lamarck 1801
recombined as Venericor planicosta
Nummulitidae
Nummulites laevigatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.9° North, 4.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bracklesham Formation:Earnley
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Earley Formation is the lower part of the Earnley Division, part of the Bracklesham Group.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,glauconitic,green poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sand, massive, green, fine grained, glauconitic, mottled, bioturbated, shell mold frequent.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8048
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-15 08:33:07 Last modified:2007-02-04 00:11:12
Access level:the public Released:2000-06-15 08:33:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
537. A. D. King and C. King. 1977. The stratigraphy of the Earnley ''division" (Braclesham Group) at Copythorne, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 1(4):115-118 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/P. Wagner]