Headon Hill, Organic 14, Bembridge Limestone (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° 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)

• This is Hooker's unit, and the numbered units begin above his "lower Bembridge Limestone" unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, brown, calcareous mudstone and limestone

• This sequence is primarily marl/mudstone, while the rest of the formation is limestone. This bed is dark brown shelly organic mud with marl clasts

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

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 9071: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 22.09.2000, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi Bosma and de Bruijn 1979 dormouse
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Suevosciurus ehingensis Dehm 1937 rodent
Isoptychus sp. Pomel 1853 rodent
 Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Tarnomys sp. Hartenberger and Schmidt-Kittler 1976 rodent
 Rodentia -
Ectropomys exiguus Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972 rodent
 Primates - Omomyidae
"Protoadapis ulmensis" = Vectipithex ulmensis
"Protoadapis ulmensis" = Vectipithex ulmensis Schmidt-Kittler 1971 tarsier
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Saturninia gracilis Stehlin 1940 placental
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anoplotheriidae
Anoplotherium cf. laurillardi Pomel 1851 even-toed ungulate
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Cynodictis lacustris Gervais 1852 bear-dog
 Cimolesta - Pantolestidae
Cryptopithecus sp. Schlosser 1890 eutherian
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Amphiperatherium "sp. A" Filhol 1879 marsupial
Amphiperatherium "sp. B" Filhol 1879 marsupial