Where: Durham, United Kingdom (54.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° N, 1.4° W)

When: Castle Eden Fissure-Fill Formation, Calabrian to Calabrian (1.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Dated as Upper Pliocene by Lesne, but the "Castle Eden flora" suggests an Early Pleistocene age, which is supported by the identification of Mammuthus meridionalis, an elephant that was common in Europe during the Early Pleistocene up to the Cromerian (MacMillan et al., 2010). [Early Pleistocene likely used in previous sense, i.e. excluding the Gelasian]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Eleanor M. Reid in 1920

• Repository: not stated (possibly MNHN if Lesne retained the material)

Primary reference: P. Lesne. 1920. Quelques insectes du Pliocène supérieur du Comté de Durham. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 26:388-394 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.03.2013

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