Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Osborne beds occur between the Headon Beds and the Bembridge Limestone within the Hampshire Basin, part of the "Fluvio-marine Beds", this collection is approx. 4m below UB 7106 (HH5)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; concretionary, shelly/skeletal, brown, green, sandy marl and intraclastic, sandy limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: A. Bosma and A. N. Insole. 1972. Theridomyinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Osborne Beds (Late Eocene), Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 75(2):133-144 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38860: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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