Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Marls Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• WB2A refers to a locality within a unit (20 cm thick), stratigraphically it is 1 m below WB2B and approx 80 m above WB1. The relationship beween the localities of Bosma 1974 and Bosma and Ingerson 1972 are unknown.
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous marl and limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: A. A. Bosma and N. Schmidt-Kittler. 1972. Ectropomys exiguus n. gen., n. sp., member of the Oltinomyinae n. subfam. (Theridomyidae, Rodentia), from Paleogene deposits of the Isle of Wight (England) and southern Germany. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 75(3):181-192 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39297: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 25.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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