Whitecliff Bay, Bembridge Limestone (Bed 3), Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis ? oligyratus
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Charales
- Characea
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Chara tuberculata
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unclassified
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Limnaea longiscata
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see common names |
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: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bembridge Limestone | Local bed: | 3 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: bed thickness is 5 ft. 6 in. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary argillaceous,sandy "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | yellow conglomeratic "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Compact creamy yellow limestone, abounding in castsof Limnaea and nucules of Chara, the upper portion of the bed is conglomeratic. The unit in general is a concretionary, sandy and marly limestone. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,cast |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 40861 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | paleobotany |
Subset of collection #: | 40042 | ||
Created: | 2004-07-01 16:53:20 | Last modified: | 2005-08-18 19:32:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-01 16:53:20 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10868. | E. Forbes. 1856. On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology 1-162 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |