Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Headon Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• This author considers the Upper Headon Beds to be a formation, HH3 refers to a locality within a unit ( 30 cm thick), situated immediately below a lignite band of variable thickness. HH3 is immediately below HH4 (1m) and approx. 14 m above HH2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty, sandy, calcareous claystone and shelly/skeletal, brown, silty marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• This is probably the same location used by Prestwich, 1946, but his stratigraphy is all screwed up, it is my guess that HH3 and HH4 are within his beds 55-57

Primary reference: A. A. Bosma. 1974. Rodent biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transitional strata of the Isle of Wight. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins. Special Publication 1:1-113 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39249: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 24.05.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

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