ammonites
Fishbourne, Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Also known as UB 6909

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Osborne beds occur between the Headon Beds and the Bembridge Limestone within the Hampshire Basin, part of the "Fluvio-marine Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; green claystone and concretionary, calcareous claystone

• a sequence of green laminated clays underlain by green marly clays with abundant white, nodular, calcareous bands and nodules. This section is overlain red and green mottled clays

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Bosma and A. N. Insole. 1972. Theridomyinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Osborne Beds (Late Eocene), Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 75(2):133-144 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38862: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.05.2004

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