Newbourn, Suffolk [Red Crag]: Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Lankester 1864 1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella imbricataria Lamarck 1804
recombined as Haustator imbricataria
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassa labiosa (Sowerby 1824)
recombined as Amyclina labiosa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais pespelicani (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Aporrhais pespelecani
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten dubius (Gmelin 1791)
Wood 1850
synonym of Aequipecten opercularis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea princeps Wood 1850
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra glauca Born 1778
Wood 1850
recombined as Mactra (Mactra) glauca
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina rustica (Sowerby 1818)
Wood 1850
recombined as Pygocardia rustica
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita gryphoides
Wood 1850
Cardita chamaeformis (Sowerby 1825)
Wood 1850
Cardita orbicularis (Sowerby 1825)
Wood 1850
Cardita senilis (Lamarck 1805)
Wood 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Suffolk
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.1° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Crag, which is regionally overlies the Coralline Crag. AGE: Late Pliocene, according to Rayner, 1981 on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
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:84796
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-11 13:30:58 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-11-11 13:30:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]
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]