Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Osborne Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• It is not clear how these beds correlate with the section Forbes describes at Seafield, even the yellow limestone that marks the boundary between the "St. Helen's Sands" and the "Nettlestone Grits" is absent here. The bed is 10 ft thick.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: concretionary, ferruginous, calcareous claystone and concretionary, green, red, blue, calcareous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Primary reference: E. Forbes. 1856. On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology 1-162 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40428: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Gastropoda | |
Paludina globuloides snail | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
Limnaea | |