Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hempstead Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• this bed lies between beds 3 and 4, and has a thickness approximately 2 ft, and in places only [occurs as] an interrupted strip of ironstone with the shells thickly interspersed in the marls above and below

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, ferruginous, argillaceous marl and ferruginous, shelly/skeletal packstone

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 40271: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.06.2004

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