Whitecliff Bay, Lower Headon Beds (Bed 21), Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Calyptra sp.
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| "Calyptraea" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Ostrea flabellula
Lamarck 1806
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| recombined as Cubitostrea flabellula | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Cytherea incrassata
(Sowerby 1817)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cyrenidae
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Cyrena obovata
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Voluta spinosa
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Pleurotoma colon
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| synonym of Turris | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Fusus labiatus
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Terebellum sp.
Röding 1798
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Gastropoda
- Thiaridae
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Melania sp.
Lamarck 1800
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| synonym of Thiara | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Potamides cinctus
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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Paludina lenta
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Neritina concava
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis sp.
Muller 1774
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium entale
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Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 1.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 5.0° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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: | Headon Beds | Member: | Lower | Local bed: | 21 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: This author numbers beds for the whole area (multiple formations) in one series, this is bed number 21. Prestwich says that this bed belongs to the "Upper Group" of the fluvio-marine series, I have correlated it with Bosma's naming system as the Lower Headon Beds. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy marl |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,green carbonaceous marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: marls and limestone, this bed is "Light greenish marl with one bed of lignite, crystals of selenite, and numerous fossils-passes upwards into a laminated brown clay without shells, which again passes upwards into [bed] 22." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 40772 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 2004-06-30 12:51:23 | Last modified: | 2005-08-18 19:31:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-30 12:51:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10745. | J. Prestwich. 1846. On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2:233-259 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |