ammonites
Campanile Beds, Selsey FM, England (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Also known as SU 54720186

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 4.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Selsey Formation, Lutetian (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• located at the base of the Upper Bracklesham beds, Selsey FM.

•age updated by Ivany

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone and claystone

• laminated clay and glauconitic sand with scattered fossils and lignite, also present are rounded flint pebbles and light grey siltstone pebbles.

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: D. J. Kemp. 1976. Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants. Tertiary Research 1(2):41-45 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8047: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 15.06.2000