Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Hooker call this unit the White Limestone (lower Bembridge Limestone)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: white limestone and shelly/skeletal marl
Collection methods: Fossils were collected by Keeping (in 1800's)
Primary reference: J. J. Hooker. 1994. Mammalian taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Bembridge Limestone Formation (Late Eocene, S. England). Historical Biology 8:49-69 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41652: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 19.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pterodon dasyuroides Blainville 1839 creodont | |
Paroxacron sp. Hürzeler 1936 even-toed ungulate | |
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate | |
Acotherulum quercyi Stehlin 1908 even-toed ungulate | |
Xiphodon gracilis even-toed ungulate | |
Anoplotherium cf. commune Cuvier 1804 even-toed ungulate
Diplobune sp. Rutimeyer 1862 even-toed ungulate | |
Rhagatherium sp. Pictet 1857 even-toed ungulate | |
Plagiolophus minor, Palaeotherium medium, Palaeotherium curtum, Palaeotherium magnum, Palaeotherium duvali, "Anchilophus radegondensis" = Metanchilophus radegondensis
Plagiolophus minor Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium medium Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium curtum Cuvier 1812 odd-toed ungulate
Palaeotherium magnum Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate
"Anchilophus radegondensis" = Metanchilophus radegondensis Gervais 1852 odd-toed ungulate | |
Treposciurus mutabilis Schmidt-Kittler 1970 rodent | |
Thalerimys fordi rodent | |
Ectropomys exiguus Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972 rodent | |
Vectipithex smithorum Hooker and Harrison 2008 tarsier
Microchoerus sp. Wood 1844 tarsier |