Suffolk (Sutton): Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom
collected 1852
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharocles megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
eroded teeth, probably reworked | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor veterior n. sp.
Lankester 1864
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Lankester 1864 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Suffolk |
Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 1.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.1° North, 1.0° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Red Crag | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Age of the Red Crag Formation based on Kuhlmann et al. (2006) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified "siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH | Collection dates: | 1852 |
Metadata
Database number: | 152484 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen | Enterer: | C. Pimiento, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | C. Pimiento | ||
Created: | 2013-11-22 22:26:16 | Last modified: | 2014-11-06 14:19:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-11-22 22:26:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52569. | C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] |
Secondary references:
50042 | G. Kuhlmann, C. G. Langereis, D. Munsterman, R. J. Leeuwen, R. Verreussel, J. E. Meulenkamp, and E. Wong. 2006. Integrated chronostratigraphy of the Pliocene-Pleistocene interval and its relation to the regional stratigraphical stages in the southern North Sea region. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 85(1):19-35 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] | |
19136 | E. R. Lankester. 1864. On new Mammalia from the Red Crag. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:353-360 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |