Headon Hill, Bembridge Limestone (marl 15), Isle of Wight (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

• local area-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 marl and limestone

• Depositional environment is coastal lake - brackish salinities
• This sequence is primarily marl/mudstone, while the rest of the formation is limestone. This bed is brown shelly marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9074: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 22.09.2000, edited by John Alroy and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Plagiolophus annectens1 Owen 1847 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Choeropotamidae
Choeropotamus parisiensis1 Cuvier 1822 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Eotalpa anglica1 Sigé et al. 1977 mole
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
 Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae
Cryptopithecus sp.1 Schlosser 1890 placental
 Rodentia -
Ectropomys exiguus1 Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972 rodent
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Isoptychus sp.1 Pomel 1853 rodent
Suevosciurus indet.1 Dehm 1937 rodent
Suevosciurus fraasi1 Major 1873 rodent
 Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
Tarnomys sp.1 Hartenberger and Schmidt-Kittler 1976 rodent
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi1
"Gliravus devoogdi" = Glamys devoogdi1 Bosma and de Bruijn 1979 dormouse
 Primates - Omomyidae
Vectipithex smithorum2 Hooker and Harrison 2008 tarsier
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Amphiperatherium "sp. A"1 Filhol 1879 marsupial
Amphiperatherium "sp. B"1 Filhol 1879 marsupial