Where: West Sussex, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 4.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Selsey Sand Formation (Bracklesham Group), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Bed Fisher 21 (also called bed Fisher xvii) ("Clibs"), uppermost unit in the Selsey Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Curry; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: G. F. Elliott. 1955. Additions to the British Eocene brachiopod fauna. Geological Magazine 92:168-172 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190872: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina edwardsi Elliott 1954 | |
Argyrotheca sp. Dall 1900
Argyrotheca cf. semicostata Baudon 1855
Argyrotheca altavillensis de Morgan 1883 |