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
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 | |
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi Bosma and de Bruijn 1979 dormouse | |
Suevosciurus ehingensis Dehm 1937 rodent
Isoptychus sp. Pomel 1853 rodent | |
Treposciurus gardneri rodent
Tarnomys sp. Hartenberger and Schmidt-Kittler 1976 rodent | |
Ectropomys exiguus Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972 rodent | |
"Protoadapis ulmensis" = Vectipithex ulmensis
"Protoadapis ulmensis" = Vectipithex ulmensis Schmidt-Kittler 1971 tarsier | |
Saturninia aff. tobieni placental
Saturninia gracilis Stehlin 1940 placental | |
Plagiolophus annectens Owen 1847 odd-toed ungulate | |
Dichobune leporina Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate | |
Anoplotherium cf. laurillardi Pomel 1851 even-toed ungulate | |
Cynodictis lacustris Gervais 1852 bear-dog | |
Cryptopithecus sp. Schlosser 1890 eutherian | |
Amphiperatherium "sp. A" Filhol 1879 marsupial
Amphiperatherium "sp. B" Filhol 1879 marsupial |