ammonites
Lee-on-the-Solent, Elmore Formation, Unit 10 (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 4.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Elmore Formation (Bracklesham Group), Lutetian (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• authors are erecting this as a new formation, within the Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group. They equate it with the Selsley division, so I'm calling it Lutetian. This unit is 0.46 m thick and part of the "Rimella Canalis Bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; silty, sandy claystone and pyritic, blue claystone

• sandy clays with thinner beds of silty sand and silty clays, this unit is clay, pale blue, stiff, pyritic

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. J. Kemp, A. D. King, C. King and W. J. Quayle. 1979. Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 2(2):93-103 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41952: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.07.2004

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