Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 1.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Crag Series, which locally unconformably overlies the London Clay (Eocene). AGE: Early Pleistocene, Icenian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From zone LM2, 120.75-121.75 ft below surface
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1959
Collection methods: bulk,
• COLLECTOR: Unknown, 1959. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: P. E. Norton. 1967. Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 253(784):161-200 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97963: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail
Gibbula cf. spastica top snail | |
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Turritella triplicata turret shell | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Nucella lapillus Linnaeus 1758 murex snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
"Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata, "Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata
"Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata Wood 1848 snail
"Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata Montagu 1803 snail | |
Caecum glabrum Montagu 1803 snail | |
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail
Turbonilla internodula Wood 1848 snail
Chrysallida spiralis snail
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Mysella cf. bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata
"Mysella cf. bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata Montague 1803 clam | |
Montacuta sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
"Venus ovata" = Timoclea ovata, Venus sp.
"Venus ovata" = Timoclea ovata Pennant 1777 venus clam
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Diplodonta astartea Nyst 1835 clam | |
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus, "Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule, Cardium scrabrum
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium scrabrum cockle | |
"Arcopagia crassa" = Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa
"Arcopagia crassa" = Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa Pennant 1777 tellin clam | |
Abra alba Wood 1802 abra | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Astarte montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam |