Whitecliff Bay, Bembridge Limestone (Beds 32-34), Isle of Wight: Late Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis euomphalus
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Planorbis rotundatus
Brongniart 1810
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unclassified
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Limnaea longiscata
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 1.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 5.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bembridge Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: This author numbers beds for the whole area in one series, these are beds 32-34. Prestwich gives fossils for beds 34-31 collectively, but I think he's lumping the Bembridge Limestone and Osborne Beds (which he calls collectively part of the "Upper Group" of the fluvio-marine series), so I'm splitting them for this collection. I have correlated it with Bosma's naming system as the Bembridge Limestone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray,green,yellow argillaceous marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: light-coloured limestone with numerous fossils, dark grey marls and light greenish white marls and yellow earthy limestone | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 40042 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Collections that are a subset of this one: | |||
| Created: | 2004-06-16 09:31:17 | Last modified: | 2005-08-18 19:31:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-16 09:31:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10745. | J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |