Where: United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Lower Member (Headon Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gastropoda | |
Neritina concava snail | |
Paludina lenta snail | |
Terebellum sp. Röding 1798 true conch | |
"Voluta spinosa" = Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa
"Voluta spinosa" = Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa Linnaeus 1758 volute | |
Fusus labiatus snail | |
"Pleurotoma colon" = Turris
"Pleurotoma colon" = Turris turrid | |
Potamides cinctus horn snail | |
"Melania sp." = Thiara
"Melania sp." = Thiara Röding 1798 snail | |
Planorbis sp. Muller 1774 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium entale tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Cyrena obovata clam | |
Cytherea incrassata Sowerby 1817 venus clam | |
Ostrea sp., "Ostrea flabellula" = Cubitostrea flabellula
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea flabellula" = Cubitostrea flabellula Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Actinopteri | |
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