Hordle Cliff Crocodile Bed, Hampshire,


Fundort: Hordle Cliff Crocodile Bed, Hampshire, , England,
Taxon: Microchoerus erinaceus aus der Familie Omomyidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Part of the Lower Headon Beds, this bed is approx. 6 m above the base, and is is approx. 2m thick. At this locality the Crocodile Bed lies above the Leaf Bed and almost immediately below the upper ironsone band. Age is Upper Eocene (Lower Ludian), Whitish sands in the upper part but the lower layers are harder and brownish in color, the rest of the Headon Beds are predominantly clays, with varying amounts of sand, limestone and ironstone
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 33,9 und 38, Millionen Jahre aus der Headon Beds Formation in
Geologie, Sratigraphie Priabonian / Priabonian / Headon Beds
Koordinaten: 50° 43 ' 29 '' N, 1° 35 ' 34 '' W

Literatur

S. Wood 1844, Record of the discovery of an Alligator with several new Mammalia in the Freshwater Strata at Hordwell. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14, p. 349 - 351

Systematik