Aldeby (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chillesford Sand Member (Norwich Crag Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Bramertonian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. R. Lankester. 1865. On the sources of the mammalian fossils of the Red Crag, and the discovery of a new mammal in that deposit, allied to the walrus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 21:221-232 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77747: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Uria aalge1 Pontoppidan 1763 Common murre
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinus delphis2 Linnaeus 1758 short-beaked common dolphin