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Headon Hill HH2, Lower Headon Beds, Isle of Wight (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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

• overall lithology is claystone with interbedded marl (some silty/sandy) and limestone, fossils come from a green clay with bivalves which passes upwards into a lignitic clay. These strata are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone.

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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