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 LM3, 86.5-88.5 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 97966: 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 | |
Chrysallida spiralis snail
Odostomia cf. conoidea Brocchi 1814 snail
Turbonilla elegantissima snail
Turbonilla internodula Wood 1848 snail | |
"Actaeon tornatilis" = Acteon
"Actaeon tornatilis" = Acteon snail | |
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail
Gibbula nehalenniae top snail | |
Turritella triplicata turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
"Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata, "Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata, Rissoa sp.
"Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata Wood 1848 snail
"Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata Montagu 1803 snail
Rissoa sp. Fréminville 1814 snail | |
Neptunea antiqua true whelk | |
"Mangelia ambigua" = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia ambigua" = Cythara (Mangelia) snail | |
Nucella lapillus Linnaeus 1758 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Mysella cf. bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata
"Mysella cf. bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata Montague 1803 clam | |
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule, "Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus, Cardium scrabrum, Cardium sp., Laevicardium decorticatum
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle
Cardium scrabrum cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Laevicardium decorticatum Wood 1840 cockle | |
Abra alba Wood 1802 abra | |
Tellinidae indet., "Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis, "Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
"Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis Leathes in Woodward 1830 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Venus ovata" = Timoclea ovata
"Venus ovata" = Timoclea ovata Pennant 1777 venus clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
"Lepton nitidum" = Hemilepton nitidum
"Lepton nitidum" = Hemilepton nitidum Turton 1822 clam | |
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis
"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |