Totland Bay, Lower Headon Beds, Isle of Wight,


Fundort: Totland Bay, Lower Headon Beds, Isle of Wight, , England,
Taxon: Vectipithex smithorum aus der Familie Omomyidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Mesofossils, Fauna comes from a grey-green clay with shell-fragments (approx. 8 cm thick) passing upwards into a lignitic clay. These laywers are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone with mollusc shells. , Fauna comes from a grey-green clay with shell-fragments (approx. 8 cm thick) passing upwards into a lignitic clay. These laywers are overlain by a pale brown marly limestone with mollusc shells.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 33,9 und 37,2 Millionen Jahre aus der Lower Headon Beds Formation in
Geologie, Sratigraphie Priabonian / Late Eocene / Lower Headon Beds
Koordinaten: 50° 40 ' 0 '' N, 1° 31 ' 59 '' W

Literatur

J. J. Hooker, D. L. Harrison 2008, A new clade of omomyid primates from the European Paleogene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28:3, p. 826 - 840

Systematik