Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Marls Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Forbes numbers these beds, but they are not formal unit designations, bed thickness is 2 ft 2 in.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: concretionary, argillaceous marl and concretionary, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous marl
Size class: macrofossils
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 40379: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Melanopsis carinata snail | |
"Melania muricata" = Thiara
"Melania muricata" = Thiara snail |