PBDB Collection

Woodbridge: Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

	Mesoplodon scaphoides n. sp. Newton 1890	Newton 1890	1 specimen
	synonym of Mesoplodon longirostris
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae

	Homocetus villersi (Du Bus 1867)	Lydekker 1887
	= Physeterula ? dubusii Van Beneden 1877	Newton 1891
	corrected as Physeterula dubusi
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

	Delphinus (Phocaena) uncidens n. sp. Lankester 1864	Lankester 1864	2 specimens
	recombined as Globicephala uncidens
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Canis primigenius n. sp. Lankester 1864	Newton 1891
	nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

	Phocanella minor Van Beneden 1876	Newton 1890
	synonym of Phocanella pumila

	Phoca moori n. sp. Newton 1890	Newton 1890	1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Lutra dubia Blainville 1841	Newton 1890
	recombined as Lartetictis dubia
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Trigontherium minus n. sp. Newton 1890	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]