Totland Bay, Lower Headon Beds, Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Cryptotopos woodi
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Scraeva hatherwoodensis
Cray 1973
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Theridomyidae
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Suevosciurus palustris
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Suevosciurus bosmae
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Isoptychus fordi
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Thalerimys fordi
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Paradelomys quercyi
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| P. quercyi vectisensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Pseudosciuridae
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Tarnomys quercyi
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
| spp, vectinensis | ||||||||||
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Sciuroides ehrensteinensis
Schmidt-Kittler 1971
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Treposciurus mutabilis
Schmidt-Kittler 1970
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| T. mutabilis helveticus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Gliravus daamsi
Bosma and de Bruijn 1982
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Bosma and de Bruijn 1982 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Schizogliravus daamsi | ||||||||||
| isolated tooth | ||||||||||
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Bransatoglis bahloi
Bosma and de Bruijn 1982
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Bosma and de Bruijn 1982 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| isolated teeth | ||||||||||
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Gliravus priscus
Stehlin and Schaub 1951
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Bosma and de Bruijn 1979 | 114 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Glamys priscus | ||||||||||
| isolated teeth | ||||||||||
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Gliravus minor
Bosma and de Bruijn 1982
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Bosma and de Bruijn 1982 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
| recombined as Glamys minor | ||||||||||
| isolated teeth | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Vectipithex smithorum
Hooker and Harrison 2008
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Hooker and Harrison 2008 | |||||||||
| BU.23337 and 23275 | ||||||||||
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Microchoerus erinaceus
Wood 1844
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Amphiperatherium sp.
Filhol 1879
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Benton et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Vectophis wardi n. gen., n. sp.
Rage and Ford 1980
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Rage and Ford 1980 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| mid-trunk vertebra (holotype) and 5 paratypes | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tropidophiidae
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cf. Dunnophis sp.
Hecht 1959
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Rage and Ford 1980 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis sp.
Muller 1774
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unclassified
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Limnaea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 1.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.1° North, 5.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lower Headon Beds | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: fauna comes from a grey-green clay with shell-fragments (approx. 8 cm thick) passing upwards into a lignitic clay. These laywers are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone with mollusc shells. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray,green carbonaceous claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,brown marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fauna comes from a grey-green clay with shell-fragments (approx. 8 cm thick) passing upwards into a lignitic clay. These laywers are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone with mollusc shells. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Minimum sieve size: | 0.500 |
| Rock censused: | 1500 kg |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 39299 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, R. Butler, P. Mannion | Enterer: | E. Leckey, J. Benito Moreno, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-25 16:59:49 | Last modified: | 2004-05-25 19:59:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-25 16:59:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10589. | A. A. Bosma. 1974. Rodent biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transitional strata of the Isle of Wight. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins. Special Publication 1:1-113 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |
Secondary references:
| 61794 | M. J. Benton, E. Cook, and J. J. Hooker. 2005. Mesozoic and Tertiary Fossil Mammals and Birds of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series 32:215 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] | |
| 10493 | A. A. Bosma and H. de Bruijn. 1979. Eocene and Oligocene Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 82(4):367-384 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] | |
| 10494 | A. A. Bosma and H. de Bruijn. 1982. Eocene and Oligocene Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 85(4):365-380 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
| 62212 | J. J. Hooker and D. L. Harrison. 2008. A new clade of omomyid primates from the European Paleogene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):826-840 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 10612 | J. C. Rage and R. L. E. Ford. 1980. Amphibians and Squamates from the Upper Eocene of the Isle of Wight. Tertiary Research 3(2):47-60 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |