Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 3.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Upper Member (Bracklesham Beds Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (55.8 - 40.4 Ma)

• Gardner et al. consider the Bracklesham and Barton beds to be part of the Bagshot Formation, for this locality they describe four beds, some with specific fossils, but don't say which bed corresponds to which unit on their taxonomic list.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, yellow sandstone

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 42583: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.08.2004, edited by Austin Hendy

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