Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: St. Helen's Sands Member (Osborne Beds Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Forbes calls this bed 4, and calls the subunit the St. Helen's Sands, a naming that I'm not sure anyone else follows. Bed thickness is 3 ft.
Environment/lithology: concretionary, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone and concretionary, green, yellow sandstone
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 40294: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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