Where: United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.8° N, 4.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lower Member (Headon Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)

• This author numbers beds for the whole area (multiple formations) in one series, this is bed number 21. Prestwich says that this bed belongs to the "Upper Group" of the fluvio-marine series, I have correlated it with Bosma's naming system as the Lower Headon Beds.

Environment/lithology: sandy marl and shelly/skeletal, green, carbonaceous marl

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 40772: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 30.06.2004

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