Westbury-Sub-Mendip Cave: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelodytidae
Pelodytes punctatus (Daudin 1802)
original and current combination Rana punctata
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758
Rana temporaria Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguis fragilis Linneaus 1758
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Vipera berus (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Vipera (Pelias) berus
Reptilia - Colubridae
Coronella austriaca Laurenti 1768
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
Natrix natrix Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Somerset
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 2.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.2° North, 2.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:195199
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2018-07-27 09:30:04 Last modified:2018-07-27 16:10:42
Access level:the public Released:2018-07-27 09:30:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66368. J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]