Whitecliff Bay, Barton Beds (Bed 4), Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Fusus sp.
Bruguière 1789
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Rostellaria sp.
Lamarck 1799
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| synonym of Tibia | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopaea intermedia
(Sowerby 1814)
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| recombined as Panopea intermedia | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya margaritacea
(Sowerby 1821)
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| recombined as Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Pectunculus brevirostris
Sowerby 1824
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| recombined as Glycymeris brevirostris | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 1.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 5.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Barton Beds | Local bed: | 4 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: This bed is part of the "London Clay" sequence recognized by Prestwich and Bowerbank. I have correlated it with Bosma's naming system as the Barton Beds. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly,shelly/skeletal sandy,calcareous claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | pebbly,brown sandy,calcareous claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: This bed is massive brown clay passing upwards into dark clayey greensand, and then into light greenish sand, separated from No. 3 by a layer of small flint pebbles in blackish sand, some septaria. This unit in general is clay with sands and marls, in places it has pebble or shell beds | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 40536 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 2004-06-24 15:12:30 | Last modified: | 2005-08-18 19:31:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-24 15:12:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10745. | J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |