Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Headon Hill Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Upper Division, beds 62-71 (numbered bottom to top)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, shelly/skeletal marl and argillaceous, sandy marl
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 39675: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Palaeotherium sp. Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate | |
Gastropoda | |
Melanopsis carinata snail | |
Planorbis euomphalus snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyrena sp. Lamarck clam | |
Limnaea | |