Headon Hill, lower Bembridge Limestone, Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Vectipithex smithorum
Hooker and Harrison 2008
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Microchoerus sp.
Wood 1844
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Ectropomys exiguus
Bosma and Schmidt-Kittler 1972
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Theridomyidae
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Thalerimys fordi
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Pseudosciuridae
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Treposciurus mutabilis
Schmidt-Kittler 1970
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Tarnomys sp.
Hartenberger and Schmidt-Kittler 1976
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| n. sp. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Pterodon dasyuroides
Blainville 1839
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Mammalia
- Dichobunidae
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Dichobune leporina
Cuvier 1822
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Mammalia
- Cebochoeridae
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Acotherulum quercyi
Stehlin 1908
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Mammalia
- Xiphodontidae
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Xiphodon gracilis
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Mammalia
- Anoplotheriidae
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Diplobune sp.
Rutimeyer 1862
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Anoplotherium cf. commune
Cuvier 1804
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Mammalia
- Choeropotamidae
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Rhagatherium sp.
Pictet 1857
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Mammalia
- Cainotheriidae
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Paroxacron sp.
Hürzeler 1936
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Palaeotherium magnum
Cuvier 1804
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Palaeotherium curtum
Cuvier 1812
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Palaeotherium medium
Cuvier 1804
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Palaeotherium duvali
Pomel 1853
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| originally entered as "Palaeotherium duvalii" | ||||||||||
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Plagiolophus minor
Cuvier 1804
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Anchilophus radegondensis
Gervais 1852
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| recombined as Metanchilophus radegondensis | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 1.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.1° North, 5.4° 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 | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Hooker call this unit the White Limestone (lower Bembridge Limestone) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Fossils were collected by Keeping (in 1800's) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41652 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | E. Leckey, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-19 12:54:21 | Last modified: | 2004-07-19 15:54:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-19 12:54:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11154. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 62212 | J. J. Hooker and D. L. Harrison. 2008. A new clade of omomyid primates from the European Paleogene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):826-840 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |