Howgate Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Daley calls this Division WH VI (Lattorfian), per his 1973 publication. Most other authors consider this unit to be Upper Eocene.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray marl and shelly/skeletal, green, red mudstone

• a thin grey marl, interbedded with poorly fossiliferous, colour mottled, red and green muds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Daley. 1974. Shell encrusting algae from the Bembridge Marls (Lattorfian) of the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Revue de Micropaleontologie 17(1):15-22 [S. Holland/S. Holland/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9070: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 22.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Nostocales - Scytonemataceae
Encrusta psalliota n. gen. n. sp.
Encrusta psalliota n. gen. n. sp. Daley 1974
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Saturninia cf. tobieni placental
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 Artiodactyla - Xiphodontidae
Dichodon cervinus Owen 1848 even-toed ungulate
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 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynodictis lacustris Gervais 1852 bear-dog
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