Suffolk (Sutton): Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom
collected 1852

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
eroded teeth, probably reworked
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor veterior n. sp. Lankester 1864
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 Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world.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]