Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Barton Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• I was unable to correlate this unit, which Gardner et al. call the Chama-bed with Prestwich either on the basis of fossils or lithology, it might correlate with bed 16 or 17, but I couldn't be sure.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone and blue, sandy claystone

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 42582: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.08.2004, edited by Austin Hendy

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