Bramerton, Suffolk [Chillesford Clay]: Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Siliquariidae
Siliquaria parva Speyer 1869
Wood 1882
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithium greenii Adams 1839
Wood 1879
recombined as Cerithiopsis greenii
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex erinaceus Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1848
recombined as Ocenebra erinaceus
Purpura lapillus (Linnaeus 1758)
Wood 1848
recombined as Nucella lapillus
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea norvegica
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya truncata Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1850
recombined as Mya (Mya) truncata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina islandica (Linnaeus 1767)
Wood 1850
recombined as Arctica islandica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra ovalis Sowerby 1817
Wood 1850
Trigonella plana da Costa 1778
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium edule Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1850
recombined as Cerastoderma edule
Cardium groenlandicum Mohr 1786
Wood 1850
recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina praetenuis Leathes in Woodward 1830
Wood 1850
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis
Tellina obliqua Sowerby 1817
Wood 1850
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) obliqua
Tellina lata Gmelin 1788
Wood 1850
Tellina crassa Pennant 1777
Wood 1850
recombined as Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Suffolk
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.6° North, 1.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chillesford Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chillesford Clay or Chillesford ClaySand. AGE: Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene, according to Rayner, 1981, on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy; Pleistocene according to Norton (1967). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within series.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but siliciclastic based on observation of specimens. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation and figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. Other volumes when entered will include bryozoa, brachiopoda, and anthozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature, which is revised where possible through more recent sources.
Metadata
Database number:84760
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-10 17:14:28 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-11-10 17:14:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33864. P. E. Norton. 1967. Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 253(784):161-200 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

28450 S. V. Wood. 1848. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves 1-208 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
29100 S. V. Wood. 1850. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the East of England. Part II. Bivalves 1-302 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]
28443 S. V. Wood. 1879. Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the upper tertiaries of the east of England 4:1-58 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
28488 S. V. Wood. 1882. Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca comparing Testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Univalves and Bivalves 1-24 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]