Cliffend, Osborne Beds (bed 4), Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Osborne Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• It is not clear how these beds correlate with the section Forbes describes at Seafield, even the yellow limestone that marks the boundary between the "St. Helen's Sands" and the "Nettlestone Grits" is absent here. The bed is 10 ft thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, ferruginous, calcareous claystone and concretionary, green, red, blue, calcareous claystone

• This bed is reddish and bluish calcareous clays, with pale green nodular concretions containing shells, passing below into red and green mottled clay, and becoming a white marl at thebase. The Osborne Series here are clays and marls, in places concretionary and ferruginous, as well as laminated

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

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 40428: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp.
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina globuloides
Limnaea
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Limnaea longiscata