Bawdsey, Suffolk [Red Crag]: Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Cassidaria bicarinata
(Sowerby 1815)
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recombined as Galeodea bicatenata | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Trophon scalariforme
(Gould 1841)
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synonym of Boreotrophon clathratus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Pleurotoma turricula
(Montagu 1803)
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Aporrhais pespelicani
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Aporrhais pespelecani | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Leda lanceolata
(Sowerby 1817)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Adrana lanceolata | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula nucleus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Nucula (Nucula) nucleus | |||||||
Nucula cobboldiae
(Linnaeus 1767)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae | |||||||
Nucula tenuis
(Montagu 1808)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Ennucula tenuis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula striata
Lamarck 1801
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Caryocorbula striata | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya arenaria
Linnaeus 1758
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Cyprina islandica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Arctica islandica | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Venus casina
Linnaeus 1758
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Dosina cassina | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra arcuata
Sowerby 1817
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Spisula arcuata | |||||||
Mactra ovalis
Sowerby 1817
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina obliqua
Sowerby 1817
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) obliqua | |||||||
Gastrana laminosa
(Sowerby 1827)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Abra alba
(Wood 1802)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium nodosum
Montague 1803
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Cardium angustatum
Sowerby 1821
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Cardium groenlandicum
Mohr 1786
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita senilis
(Lamarck 1805)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte gracilis
Golfuss 1837
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Astarte compressa
(Montague 1808)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Astarte basterotii
De la Jonkaire 1823
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Isocrassina basteroti | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten tigrinus
Müller 1776
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Palliolum tigrinum | |||||||
Pecten pusio
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Talochlamys pusio | |||||||
Pecten maximus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Pecten maxima | |||||||
Pecten gracilis
Sowerby 1825
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
synonym of Aequipecten opercularis | |||||||
Pecten dubius
(Gmelin 1791)
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
synonym of Aequipecten opercularis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia patelliformis
Linnaeus 1773
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
recombined as Pododesmus patelliformis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea princeps
Wood 1850
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Wood 1850 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Suffolk |
Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 1.4° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.1° North, 1.1° 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: | 84798 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-11-11 13:33:05 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-11-11 13:33:05 |
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:
23858 | A. J. W. Hendy. 2007. Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions). [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner] | |
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] |