Whitecliff Bay, Bembridge Limestone (Bed 1), Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• bed thickness is 3.5 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, argillaceous, sandy limestone and yellow limestone

• a yellow limestone, weathering rather darker, exhibiting in the fracture minute confervoid ramifying cavities. This bed is very full of casts of shells and nucules of Chara. The unit in general is a concretionary, sandy and marly limestone.

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 40859: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 01.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Charales - Characea
Chara tuberculata
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp.
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina sp.
Paludina sp. Férussac 1812 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbis cf. oligyratus
Limnaea
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Limnaea longiscata