Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Prestwich calls these the "upper group" of the Headon Hill formation. The group seems to include all formations present, as they are all counted together, this collection includes beds 75-72 (numbered bottom to top). It is my opinion, based on comparison with several more recent papers, that these beds are actually part of the Osborne Beds (Bosma, 1974)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, green marl and argillaceous, conglomeratic, calcareous, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39674: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.06.2004

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