Headon Hill, Osborne Beds (Bed 1), Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed thickness is approx. 30-40 ft.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, green, red, blue, argillaceous, silty marl

• Whitish marls, passing downwards into red and blue mottled clay (more red than blue), with occasional hard and gritty bands and rows of nodular greenish concretions, in which traces of shells and turtle-bones occur.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion

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 40845: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 01.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbis discus, Planorbis obtusus, Planorbis oligyratus
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina sp.
Paludina sp. Férussac 1812 snail
different from P. lenta
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
"turtle bones"
Limnaea
  -
Limnaea cf. pereger, Limnaea longiscata