Also known as Hordwell
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 44.9° N, 4.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Headon Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)
• just above the leaf bed, this bed is 0.23-0.46 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: concretionary, ferruginous, sandy, calcareous claystone and white sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Cray. 1973. Marsupialia, Insectivora, Primates, Creodonta and Carnivora from the Headon Beds (upper Eocene) of southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology Series 23(1):1-102 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39666: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Palaeotheriidae indet. Bonaparte 1850 odd-toed ungulate difficult to tell whether these are 30 bones from the same animal or just the same sp.
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