Brading Harbour, Bembridge Limestone (bed 3), Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bembridge Harbour

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bembridge Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed thickness is approx. 1 ft 8 in

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, argillaceous, conglomeratic limestone and green, white limestone

• This bed is soft and greenish-white limestone, exhibiting when broken small cavities being the hollows of empty shells, often containing a bituminous substance, probably derived from animal matter. The Bembridge Limestone is in places concretionary, conglomeratic, marly and clayey

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: E. Forbes. 1856. On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology 1-162 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40099: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 17.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Charales - Characea
Chara tuberculata
Chara tuberculata stonewort
he doesn't specify, but it's probably a seed-vessel
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbis oligyratus, Planorbis discus
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina sp.
Paludina sp. Férussac 1812 snail
Limnaea
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Limnaea longiscata