Pakefield/Kessingland rootlet bed, Suffolk, England: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus trogontherii
(Pohlig 1885)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera leo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus altidens
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis
(Toula 1902)
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Megaloceros verticornis
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Megaloceros savini
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Cervus elaphus
Linnaeus 1758
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Dama cf. dama
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Dama roberti n. sp.
Breda and Lister 2013
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Breda and Lister 2013 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Mimomys savini
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor fiber
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Trogontherium cuvieri
Owen 1846
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Suffolk |
| Coordinates: | 52.5° North, 1.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.5° North, 1.7° East | ||
| 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
| Formation: | Cromer Forest Bed | Member: | Rootlet | ||
| Local section: | Pakefield/Kessingland | Local bed: | d | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Pleistocene. Rootlet bed overlies the gravels. Pollen substage 2? | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Grey to reddish-brown compact silt with carbonate nodules ('race'), occasional rootlets and mammal remains. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: An overbank deposit ('alluvium') | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: First collected and published by Blake in 1884, 1890. Pollen is is poorly preserved with corroded grains. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Temperate fauna. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49814 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner, G. Slater | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, G. Slater |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2005-04-27 06:10:46 | Last modified: | 2005-04-27 09:37:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-27 06:10:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13378. | PACED | A. J. Stuart and A. M. Lister. 2001. The mammalian faunas of Pakefield/Kessingland and Corton, Suffolk, UK: evidence for a new temperate episode in the British early Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1677-1692 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
| 85090 | M. Breda and A. M. Lister. 2013. Dama roberti, a new species of deer from the early Middle Pleistocene of Europe, and the origins of modern fallow deer. Quaternary Science Reviews 69:155-167 [G. Slater/G. Slater] |