Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Barton Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pebbly, shelly/skeletal, sandy, calcareous claystone and ferruginous, brown, gray, calcareous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40537: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 24.06.2004, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium planum tusk shell
Dentalium ? entale tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
"Pitarinae indet." = Callocardiinae
"Pitarinae indet." = Callocardiinae Dall 1895 venus clam | |
? Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Ostrea flabellula" = Cubitostrea flabellula
"Ostrea flabellula" = Cubitostrea flabellula Lamarck 1806 oyster |