Headon Hill HH3, Upper Headon Beds, Isle of Wight,


Fundort: Headon Hill HH3, Upper Headon Beds, Isle of Wight, , England,
Taxon: Vectipithex smithorum aus der Familie Omomyidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, This author considers the Upper Headon Beds to be a formation, HH3 refers to a locality within a unit ( 30 cm thick), situated immediately below a lignite band of variable thickness. HH3 is immediately below HH4 (1m) and approx. 14 m above HH2, Overall lithology is claystone with interbedded marl (some silty/sandy) and limestone, fossils come from a chocolate-brown laminated silty marl with many shell-fragments
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 33,9 und 37,2 Millionen Jahre aus der Upper Headon Beds Formation in
Geologie, Sratigraphie Priabonian / Late Eocene / Upper Headon Beds
Koordinaten: 50° 37 ' 44 '' N, 1° 33 ' 0 '' 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