Suffolk (Sutton) (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Crag Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Age of the Red Crag Formation based on Kuhlmann et al. (2006)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1852; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: C. Pimiento. 2014. Carcharocles megalodon unpublished collections from Natural History Museums around the world. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152484: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 22.11.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor veterior n. sp. Lankester 1864 beaver
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharocles megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
eroded teeth, probably reworked