Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• It is not clear how these beds correlate with the section Forbes describes at Seafield, even the yellow limestone that marks the boundary between the "St. Helen's Sands" and the "Nettlestone Grits" is absent here. The bed is 6 ft thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, ferruginous, calcareous claystone and concretionary, ferruginous, green, red, calcareous claystone

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 40441: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 23.06.2004

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