Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 1.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coralline Crag Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Coralline Crag, which is regionally overlain by the Red Crag. AGE: It has been correlated with, but probably predates at 4.4 to 3.8 Ma, the Luchtbal Sand Member of the Lillo Formation in the Antwerp area on the basis of molluscs (Cambridge, 1977), foraminifera (Jenkins and Houghton, 1987) and dinoflagellate cysts (Louwye et al., 2004; De Schepper et al., 2009), placing it in the latter part of the early Pliocene (Zanclean 2) of the southern North Sea. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: S. V. Wood. 1848. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves 1-208 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84795: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Odostomia plicata Montagu 1803 snail | |
"Scalaria fimbriosa" = Cirsotrema fimbriosa
"Scalaria fimbriosa" = Cirsotrema fimbriosa Wood 1842 wentletrap | |
"Turritella incrassata" = Turritella (Haustator) incrassata
"Turritella incrassata" = Turritella (Haustator) incrassata Sowerby 1814 turret shell | |
Eulima subulata Montagu 1808 snail | |
Pyrula reticulata Lamarck 1822 fig shell | |
"Cassidaria bicarinata" = Galeodea bicatenata
"Cassidaria bicarinata" = Galeodea bicatenata Sowerby 1815 snail | |
"Aporrhais pespelicani" = Aporrhais pespelecani
"Aporrhais pespelicani" = Aporrhais pespelecani Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Voluta lamberti" = Scaphella (Scaphella) lamberti
"Voluta lamberti" = Scaphella (Scaphella) lamberti Sowerby 1823 volute | |
"Buccinum dalei" = Liomesus dalei, Buccinum undatum
"Buccinum dalei" = Liomesus dalei Sowerby 1825 true whelk
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758 true whelk | |
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"Nucula nucleus" = Nucula (Nucula) nucleus1
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"Lima loscombii" = Limaria (Limatulella) loscombii1, "Lima hians" = Limaria (Limaria) hians1, Lima exilis1, Lima subauriculata1
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"Pecten pusio" = Talochlamys pusio1, "Pecten maximus" = Pecten maxima1, Hinnites cortesyi1, "Pecten gerardii" = Palliolum gerardi1, "Pecten tigrinus" = Palliolum tigrinum1, "Pecten princeps" = Pseudamussium princeps1, "Pecten dubius" = Aequipecten opercularis1
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"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona1
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"Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa2
"Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa2 Linnaeus 1767 clam SUBSPECIES: Pectunculus pilosus insubricus
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"Lucina borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis1
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"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata1
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"Corbula striata" = Caryocorbula striata1
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"Lepton deltoideum" = Bornia (Bornia) deltoidea1
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"Cytherea chione" = Callista (Callista) chione1, Lucinopsis lajonkairii2, Tapes perovalis1, "Venus casina" = Dosina cassina1, "Venus imbricata" = Timoclea imbricata1, Artemis lincta1, "Cytherea rudis" = Pitar (Pitar) rudis1
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"Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata1
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"Cardium decorticatum" = Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum1, "Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule1
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Astarte gracilis1, Astarte mutabilis1, "Astarte burtinii" = Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea1, "Astarte basterotii" = Isocrassina basteroti1, "Astarte omalii" = Isocrassina omalii1
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