Also known as Hordwell
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Rolled-bone Member (Headon Beds Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Age is Upper Eocene (Lower Ludian), the name for this bed comes from Tawney & Keeping (1883), and is listed by them as bed 13, corresponding to the Marchioness of Hastings's bed 11. This bed lies just below the Crocodile Bed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white sandstone and concretionary, ferruginous, sandy, calcareous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: In 1852, the Marchioness of Hastings published an almost identical paper to her 1853 report. I used the later English version, but the earlier paper is the more primary reference.
Primary reference: M. Hastings. 1853. On the Tertiary Beds of Hordwell, Hampshire. Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Fourth Series 6(36):1-11 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39665: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Emys sp. Dumeril 1806 pond turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
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Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
Actinopteri | |
Gastropoda | |
Melanopsis brevis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Potamomya sp." = Erodona
"Potamomya sp." = Erodona Daudin 1802 clam |