Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Member (Headon Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• unit thickness approx. 30 ft.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; pebbly, shelly/skeletal, sandy, calcareous claystone and 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 40890: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
Potamides ventricosum horn snail
Potamides cinctus horn snail | |
"Melania sp." = Thiara
"Melania sp." = Thiara Röding 1798 snail | |
Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Planorbis euomphalus snail | |
Neritina concava snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula depressa nut clam | |
Cyrena obovata clam | |
Cytherea incrassata Sowerby 1817 venus clam
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Limnaea | |