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
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
Mammalia | |
Mimomys savini vole | |
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846 beaver
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion | |
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
Equus altidens horse | |
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis Toula 1902 rhinoceros | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Megaloceros verticornis Irish elk
Megaloceros savini Irish elk
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Dama roberti n. sp. Breda and Lister 2013 fallow deer
Dama cf. dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth |