Headon Hill, Osborne Beds (Bed 2), Isle of Wight: Late/Upper Eocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Paludina lenta
Gastropoda - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis carinata
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Melania costata
synonym of Thiara
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 1.6° 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:Osborne Beds Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed thickness is approx. 7 ft.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous claystone
Secondary lithology:ferruginous,shelly/skeletal,gray claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: grey shaly clays with crushed shells and fish vertebrae, separated by a thin band of ironstone from grey shales. Unit in general is calcareous clay and marl
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:40851
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:J. Alroy
Created:2004-07-01 14:33:20 Last modified:2005-08-18 19:31:54
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-01 14:33:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10868. 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]