Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bembridge Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Bembridge Limestone? These localities are situated on top of the main limestone succession of the Bembride Limestone in a unit approx. 1.5 m thick, HH7 is in the upper part of this unit. Hooker says that his levele "Organic 16-17" are equivalent to this unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous, carbonaceous marl and shelly/skeletal, carbonaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. A. Bosma and N. Schmidt-Kittler. 1972. Ectropomys exiguus n. gen., n. sp., member of the Oltinomyinae n. subfam. (Theridomyidae, Rodentia), from Paleogene deposits of the Isle of Wight (England) and southern Germany. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 75(3):181-192 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39264: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 25.05.2004, edited by Steven Holland

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