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 37-40 (numbered bottom to top)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal marl and green, white, argillaceous 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 39694: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Cyrena sp. Lamarck clam | |
Cytherea incrassata Sowerby 1817 venus clam |