Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bembridge Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• This author numbers beds for the whole area in one series, this is bed number 36. It seems to correspond to the "Oyster Bed" of Bosma, 1974
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, argillaceous limestone and shelly/skeletal, gray, green marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39705: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Gastropoda | |
Potamides acutus horn snail
Potamides cinctus horn snail | |
"Melania fasciata" = Thiara
"Melania fasciata" = Thiara snail | |
Melanopsis sp. FĂ©russac 1807 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyrena obovata clam
Cyrena cuneiformis clam | |
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