Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Reading Beds Formation, Paleocene (65.5 - 55.8 Ma)

• Recent authors put the Reading Beds to Paleocene age, this author shows them outcropping below the London Clay. The bed number probably only pertains to this locality

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone and green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. S. Garnder, H. Keeping, and H. W. Monckton. 1888. The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 44:578-635 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42564: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.08.2004

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