Newtown Bone Bed (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Osborne Member (Headon Hill Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; green, red marl

• These [marls] suggest a floodplain environment (Hooker 1992), as evidenced by the presence of a mudcrack horizon and occasional bonebeds.
• The Osborne Marls Member itself includes red and green mottled marls, subordinate muds, and ripple-marked layers (Insole & Daley 1985).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Klembara and B. Green. 2010. Anguimorph lizards (Squamata, Anguimorpha) from the middle and late Eocene of the Hampshire Basin of southern England. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(1):97-129 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194988: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 10.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp.
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard
IWCMS.2006.35, partial parietal