Croydon (Woolwich Shell Beds) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woolwich Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• central channel, upper shelly clays

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. J. Hooker. 2018. A mammal fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum of Croydon, London, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 1-16 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184514: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 10.03.2017, edited by Mark Uhen and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gastornithiformes - Gastornithidae
"Gastornis klaasseni" = Gastornis parisiensis
"Gastornis klaasseni" = Gastornis parisiensis HĂ©bert 1855 bird
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon oweni Hebert 1856 pantodont