Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fishbourne Member (Headon Hill Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• From the "Osborne clay" or "Osborne Beds", now the Chapel Corner Fish Bed of the Fishbourne Member of the Headon Hill Formation according to Quayle and Collins (2012). Age given as Oligocene by Woodward, and lower Oligocene by Woods (1925), but Fishbourne Member now assigned to the latest Eocene (Sheldon et al., 2009).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, pyritic, gray, green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by G.W. Colenutt
• Repository: personal collection of G.W. Colenutt, subsequently lost (Gaudant & Quayle, 1988)
Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1903. On some fossil prawns from the Osborne Beds of the Isle of Wight. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 10:97-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226129: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Propalaemon osborniensis" = Propalaemon osborniensis, "Propalaemon minor" = Propalaemon osborniensis
"Propalaemon osborniensis" = Propalaemon osborniensis Woodward 1903 shrimp
"Propalaemon minor" = Propalaemon osborniensis Woodward 1903 shrimp |