Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 5.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lower Headon Beds Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• This author considers the Lower Headon Beds to be a formation, HH2 refers to a locality in the second lowest mammal-bearing unit (thickness approximately 15 cm), which passes upwards into a lignitic clay (thickness approx. 5 cm). This is the upper portion of the Lower Headon Beds (approx. 18 m above HH1)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; silty, sandy, calcareous claystone and shelly/skeletal, green, calcareous, carbonaceous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• This is probably the same location used by Prestwich, 1946, but his stratigraphy is all screwed up, it is my guess that HH2 is the same as his bed 45
Primary reference: 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] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39236: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 24.05.2004, edited by Jason Head, Terri Cleary and Juan Benito Moreno
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