Sample name: Abbey Wood

Reference: J. J. Hooker. 2010. The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 164(634):1-162 [ER 3930]

Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: paleosol

Habitat comments: "sandy pebbly shell bed"

"The shell bed facies (Lessness Shell Bed) is the main source of the mammals...although a few have been found in the laterally interfingering buff sand"

"The fauna is preserved in a nearshore marine high-energy sedimentary environment and has therefore been transported there from its habitat on land"

If the Blackheath Sea was <20 m deep at the time of deposition (a likely depth based on shoreline facies), there would have been land within 2 km of the depositional site which the mammalian fauna could have occupied, indicating the community structure may have not been altered upon deposition

Life forms: bats,carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 320 specimens

Sampling comments: "Since 1992, one-day TRG-run excavations have taken place annually"

Counts excluded:
Sparnacomys sp. /questionably assigned - 1
Chiroptera indet. - 1
Rodentia gen. et sp. undet. - 1
Amphilemuridae? indet. - 2
Wyonycteris? sp. - 1
Prototomus sp. - 1
Ailuravinae indet. - 1

Sample number: 4332

Contributor: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-07-18 12:06:44

Modified: 2023-07-18 03:44:34