Pakefield/Kessingland rootlet bed, Suffolk, England (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Suffolk, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Rootlet Member (Cromer Forest Bed Formation), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Early Middle Pleistocene. Rootlet bed overlies the gravels. Pollen substage 2?

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• An overbank deposit ('alluvium')
• Grey to reddish-brown compact silt with carbonate nodules ('race'), occasional rootlets and mammal remains.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: First collected and published by Blake in 1884, 1890. Pollen is is poorly preserved with corroded grains.

Primary reference: A. J. Stuart and A. M. Lister. 2001. The mammalian faunas of Pakefield/Kessingland and Corton, Suffolk, UK: evidence for a new temperate episode in the British early Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1677-1692 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49814: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.04.2005, edited by Graham Slater

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Temperate fauna.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846 beaver
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
large.
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis Toula 1902 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Dama roberti n. sp. Breda and Lister 2013 fallow deer
Dama cf. dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth