Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• fauna comes from a grey-green clay with shell-fragments (approx. 8 cm thick) passing upwards into a lignitic clay. These laywers are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone with mollusc shells.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray, green, carbonaceous claystone and shelly/skeletal, brown marl

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

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 39299: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 25.05.2004, edited by Juan Benito Moreno and Philip Mannion

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