Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Marls Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Forbes doesn't give a thickness of these beds. He uses a different numbering system with the units at this locality than ones he uses at other localities (numbers vs. letters), for this locality he doesn't even give bed thicknesses, making them difficult to correlate. He does begin the sequence at this locality with the "Black Band" with which he ended the series of Hempstead series.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: concretionary marl and shelly/skeletal, green, carbonaceous claystone
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 40918: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Melania turritissima" = Thiara
"Melania turritissima" = Thiara snail | |
Paludina lenta snail |