Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Headon Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• the lowermost unit, approx. 1 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sandy, calcareous, carbonaceous claystone and gray, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Cray. 1973. Marsupialia, Insectivora, Primates, Creodonta and Carnivora from the Headon Beds (upper Eocene) of southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology Series 23(1):1-102 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40029: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 14.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Bivalvia | |
Sinodia suborbicularis Goldfuss 1841 venus clam | |
? Corbicula obovata clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Batillaria concava snail | |
Mammalia | |
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Amphirhagatherium edwardsi n. sp.
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Catodontherium sp. Deperet 1908 even-toed ungulate | |
Scraeva hatherwoodensis n. gen. n. sp.
Scraeva hatherwoodensis n. gen. n. sp. Cray 1973 placental | |
Theridomyidae indet. Alston 1876 rodent | |
Microchoerus erinaceus Wood 1844 tarsier | |
Peratherium "sp. A" Aymard 1850 marsupial |