Publications relevant to the identification of fossils on this Website

(This is not intended as a full bibliography, but a list of some of the most useful publications.)

• Bell, T.J. (1858) A Monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain. Part I. Crustacea of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Bone, Anne & David (1985) Fossils from Bracklesham to Selsey. Chichester District Council & D.A. Bone. ISBN 0 903970 06 6
• Brander, Gustavo (1766) Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Brittanico deposita. London.
• Burton, Ernest St. John (1933) Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association.
• Chandler, M.E.J. (1960-1964) The Lower Teriary Floras of Southern England. 1-4. British Museum (Natural History), London.
• Chandler, M.E.J. (1963) Revision of the Oligocene Floras of the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, London, 6 : 321-384, pls. 27-35.
• Chandler, M.E.J. (1961) Flora of the Lower Headon Beds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, London, 5 : 91-158, pls. 24-30.
• Chandler, M.E.J. (1960) Plant Remains of the Hengistbury and Barton Beds. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, London, 4 : 191-238, pls. 29-35.
• Chapman, Ray (2004) Fossils of the Barton Beds. The Dorset Geologists' Association Group. ISBN 0 9544354 1 9
• Cossmann, M. & Pissarro, G. (1904-1906) Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. 1: Pélécypodes. Paris
• Cossmann, M. & Pissarro, G. (1907-1913) Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. 2: Scaphopodes, Gastropodes, Brachiopodes, Céphalopodes & Supplément. Paris
• Davies, A. Morley (1971) Tertiary Faunas. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London. ISBN 0 04 560003 1
• Dixon, Frederic (1850) The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London.
• Edwards, Frederic E. & Wood, Searles V. (1849-1877) A Monograph of the Eocene Cephalopoda and Univalves of England. Volume I. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Feist-Castel, Monique (1977) Evolution of the Charophyte Floras in the Upper Eocene and Lower Oligocene of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontology, 20 : 143-157, pls. 21.22.
• Forbes, Edward (1856) On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology.
• Forbes, Edward (1852) Echinodermata of the British Tertiaries. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Gale, Andrew Scott (2020) Acorn barnacles (Crustacea, Thoracica, Balanomorpha) from the Eocene and Oligocene of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire (United Kingdom) and Manche, northern France. Acta Geologica Polonica.
• Gale, Andy (2019) The Isle of Wight. Geologists' Association Guide No. 60. ISBN 978 0900717 96 3
• Haskins, C.W. (1968-1971) Tertiary Ostracoda from the Isle of Wight and Barton, Hampshire. Parts 1 - 7. Revue de Micropaléontologie, V. 10 - 14, Paris.
• Hooker, Jerry J. (2021) The Mammals of the Late Eocene – Early Oligocene Solent Group. Part 1, Introduction and Euarchonta: Nyctitheriidae. (Contains detailed stratigraphy of the Solent Group deposits.) Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 175:659, 1-265, DOI: 10.1080/02693445.2021.1928440.
• Hooker, Jerry J. (2023) The Mammals of the Late Eocene – Early Oligocene Solent Group. Part 2, Euarchonta (Nyctitheriidae and Primates), Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Pseudorhyncocyonidae, Pantolesta, Apatotheria. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 177(667), 148–290, DOI: 10.1080/02693445.2023.2339592.
• Insole, A.N. & Daley, B. (1985) A revision of the lithostratigraphical nomenclature of the late Eocene and early Oligocene strata of the Hampshire Basin, southern England. Tertiary Research, 7, 67-100.
• Jeffery, Paul & Tracey, Steve (1997) The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire. Tertiary Research, 17 (3-4), 75-137.
• Kadolsky, Dietrich & Morton, Alan (2022) An unusual Nystia species (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from the early Rupelian of the Isle of Wight (Hampshire Basin, England). Cainozoic Research, 22(1), 3-7.
• Kaasschieter, Johannes Paulus Heimen (1961) Foraminifera of the Eocene of Belgium. Memoire of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelle de Belgique, 147, 1-271.
• Kemp, David; Kemp, Liz & Ward, David (1990) An Illustrated Guide to the British Middle Eocene Vertebrates. David Ward, London.
• King, C. (2016) A Revised Correlation of Tertiary Rocks in the British Isles and Adjacent Areas of NW Europe. (Geological Society Special Report No. 27. Eds. Gale, A. S. & Barry, T. L.) ISBN: 978-1-86239-728-6.
• Lewis, David (2017) Fossil sea urchins from the Middle Eocene of Barton. Deposits Magazine.
• Lewis, David (1989) Fossil Echinoidea from the Barton Beds (Eocene, Bartonian) of the type locality at Barton-on-Sea in the Hampshire Basin, England. Tertiary Research, 11 (1), 1-47.
• Lowry, J.W. (1866) Chart of the Characteristic British Tertiary Fossils, Stratigraphically Arranged. Tennant & Stanford, London.
• Munt, Martin C. (2014) Mollusca from the Insect Limestone (Bembridge Marls Member: Bouldnor Formation: Solent Group), Palaeogene, Isle of Wight, southern England. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 104, 263–274.
• Munt, Martin C. & Barker, Michael J. (1996) Some micromorphic gastropods from the Corbula beds, Cranmore Member (Solent Group, Early Oligocene) of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Tertiary Research, 17 (1-2), 27-32.
• Murray, J.W. & Wright, C.A. (1974) Palaeogene Foraminiferida and Palaeoecology, Hampshire and Paris Basins and the English Channel. Special Papers in Palaeontology Number 14, The Palaeontological Association, London.
• Newton, Richard Bullen (1891) Systematic List of the Frederick E. Edwards Collection of British Oligocene and Eocene Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London.
• Nolf, Dirk (2013) The Diversity of Fish Otoliths, Past and Present. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels.
• Osborne White, H.J. (1990;1921) A Short Account of The Geology of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. HMSO, London.
• Owen, R. & Bell, T. (1849-1880) Monograph of the Fossil Reptilia of the London Clay and of the Bracklesham and other Tertiary Beds. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Quayle, W.J. & Collins, J.S.H. (1981) New Eocene crabs from the Hampshire Basin. Palaeontology, 24, 733-758.
• Rasmussen, H. Weinberg (1972) Lower Tertiary Crinoidea, Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea from Northern Europe and Greenland. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter, 19, 7, 1-83.
• Rayner, David; Mitchell, Tony; Rayner, Martin & Clouter, Fred (2009) London Clay Fossils of Kent and Essex. Medway Fossil and Mineral Society, Rochester. ISBN 978-0-9538243-1-1
• Reid, E.M. & Chandler, M.E.J. (1926) The Bembridge Flora. Catalogue of Cainozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, I. British Museum (Natural History), London.
• Reid, Clement & Groves, J. (1921) The Charophyta of the Lower Headon Beds of Hordle [Hordwell] Cliffs (South Hampshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 77 : 175-192.
• Reid, Clement & Strahan, Aubrey (1889) The Geology of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales. HM Stationery Office, London.
• Rio, Jonathan & Mannion, Philip & Tschopp, Emanuel & Martin, Jeremy & Delfino, Massimo (2020) Reappraisal of the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the alligatoroid crocodylian Diplocynodon hantoniensis from the late Eocene of the United Kingdom. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188, 579–629.
• Sanders, Tony & Cooper, John (1977) Illustrated Guide to Barton Fossils.
• Stinton, F.C. (1975-1984) Fish Otoliths from the English Eocene. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Stinton, F.C. (1971) Easter Field Meeting in the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 82, 403-410.
• Symonds, Malcolm (2015) New species of Neritidae (Gastropoda, Neritimorpha) from the Solent Group (late Eocene and early Oligocene) of the Hampshire Basin. Cainozoic Research, 15 (1-2), 147-153.
• Symonds, Malcolm & Tracey, Steve (2014) Neritilia (Gastropoda, Neritopsina, Neritiliidae): pushing back the timeline. Cainozoic Research, 14 (1), 3-7.
• Symonds, Malcolm (2009) The Neritopsidae and the Neritidae of the Bracklesham Group (Early and Middle Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin. Cainozoic Research, 6 (1-2), 37-51.
• Symonds, Malcolm (2006) The Neritidae of the Solent Group (Late Eocene and Early Oligocene) of the Hampshire Basin. Cainozoic Research, 4 (1-2), 27-39.
• Symonds, Malcolm (2002) The Neritidae of the Barton Group (Middle Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin. Tertiary Research, 21 (1-4), 1-10.
• Taylor, David C. (2023) The Palaeontology and Geology of Shepherds Gutter near Bramshaw in the New Forest. Published by the Author. ISBN 978-1-905912-89-6
• Todd, Jonathan & Parfitt, Simon (Eds.) (2017) British Cenozoic Fossils. Sixth Edition. Natural History Museum, London). ISBN 978 0 565 09305 1
• Tracey, Steve (1996) Molluscs of the Selsey Formation (Middle Eocene): Conoidea, Turrinae. Tertiary Research, 16, 55-95.
• Tracey, Steve, Todd, Jonathan A., Le Renard, Jacques, King, Chris & Goodchild, Mike (1996) Distribution of Mollusca in units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex. Tertiary Research, 16, 97-139.
• Tracey, Steve (1992) A review of the Early Eocene molluscs of Bognor Regis (Hampshire Basin), England. Tertiary Research, 13 (2-3), 155-175.
• Tremlett, W.E. (1953) English Eocene and Oligocene Veneridae, 1-2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 30, 1-21, 55-71.
• Wood, Searles V. (1861-1871) A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England. Volume I. Palaeontographical Society, London.
• Wrigley, Arthur (1925-1953) Extensive series of papers about English Eocene and Oligocene Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 16-30.

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