Hordle Cliff Rolled-Bone Bed, Hampshire: Priabonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis brevis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Potamomya sp.
synonym of Erodona
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
isolated teeth
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys sp. Dumeril 1806
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Crocodilia
Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842
spelled with current rank as Crocodylia
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 1.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 5.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Headon Beds Member:Rolled-bone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Age is Upper Eocene (Lower Ludian), the name for this bed comes from Tawney & Keeping (1883), and is listed by them as bed 13, corresponding to the Marchioness of Hastings's bed 11. This bed lies just below the Crocodile Bed.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,white sandstone
Secondary lithology:concretionary,ferruginous sandy,calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: greyish-white sands, the rest of the Headon Beds are predominantly clays, with varying amounts of sand, limestone and ironstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: In 1852, the Marchioness of Hastings published an almost identical paper to her 1853 report. I used the later English version, but the earlier paper is the more primary reference.
Metadata
Also known as:Hordwell
Database number:39665
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-06-02 09:41:45 Last modified:2022-02-01 06:45:55
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-02 09:41:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10789. M. Hastings. 1853. On the Tertiary Beds of Hordwell, Hampshire. Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Fourth Series 6(36):1-11 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

10423 P. E. Cray. 1973. Marsupialia, Insectivora, Primates, Creodonta and Carnivora from the Headon Beds (upper Eocene) of southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology Series 23(1):1-102 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]