Woodbridge: Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Mesoplodon scaphoides n. sp.
Newton 1890
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Newton 1890 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Mesoplodon longirostris | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Homocetus villersi
(Du Bus 1867)
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Lydekker 1887 | ||||||
= Physeterula ? dubusii
Van Beneden 1877
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Newton 1891 | ||||||
corrected as Physeterula dubusi | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinus (Phocaena) uncidens n. sp.
Lankester 1864
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Lankester 1864 | 2 specimens | |||||
recombined as Globicephala uncidens | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Canis primigenius n. sp.
Lankester 1864
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Newton 1891 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Phocanella minor
Van Beneden 1876
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Newton 1890 | ||||||
synonym of Phocanella pumila | |||||||
Phoca moori n. sp.
Newton 1890
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Newton 1890 | 1 specimen | |||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus spelaeus
Rosenmüller 1794
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Lutra dubia
Blainville 1841
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Newton 1890 | ||||||
recombined as Lartetictis dubia | |||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Trigontherium minus n. sp.
Newton 1890
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Newton 1890 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Suffolk |
Coordinates: | 52.1° North, 1.3° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.2° North, 1.0° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Red Crag |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 77753 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, B. Allen | Enterer: | M. Uhen, B. Allen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-01-18 08:23:22 | Last modified: | 2014-05-13 09:43:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-18 08:23:22 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26261. | E. T. Newton. 1882. The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales 1-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
26340 | P. L. Gibbard, J. A. Zalasiewcz, and S. J. Mathers. 1998. Stratigraphy of the marine Plio-Pleistocene crag deposits of East Anglia. Mededelingen Neerlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO 60:239-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
12874 | R. Lydekker. 1887. The Cetacea of the Suffolk Crag. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:7-18 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
28641 | E. T. Newton. 1891. The vertebrata of the Pliocene deposits of Britain. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom 1-137 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
28696 | R. T. Newton. 1890. On some new mammals from the Red and Norwich Crags. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 46:444-453 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |