Also known as Hordwell

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Headon Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• this bed is synonymous with the "Limnaea Marl" and is in the upper portion of the Lower Headon Beds, (less than 1 m from the top) at this locality. In her publications, M. of Hastings separated this into two units (her Stratum 1 and 2).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous marl and concretionary, ferruginous, sandy, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: In 1852, the Marchioness of Hastings published an almost identical paper to her 1853 report. I used the later English version, but the earlier paper is the more primary reference.

Primary reference: S. Wood. 1844. Record of the discovery of an Alligator with several new Mammalia in the Freshwater Strata at Hordwell. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:349-351 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39662: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.06.2004, edited by Jason Head, Collin VanBuren, Terri Cleary and Juan Benito Moreno

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