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: Osborne Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• bed thickness is approx. 18 ft.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous claystone and concretionary, yellow, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 40852: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 01.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Paludina lenta snail | |
Planorbis euomphalus snail
Planorbis lens Brongniart 1810 snail | |