Bacton (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Forest Bed Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. T. Newton. 1882. The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales 1-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77749: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver
originally entered as "Trogonotherium sp."
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
"Myogale moschata" = Desmana, Talpa europaea
"Myogale moschata" = Desmana Russian desman
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major2 Cuvier 1824 hippo
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera ? sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sedgwickii Leny 1902 deer
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis ? vulpes" = Vulpes vulpes
"Canis ? vulpes" = Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Tropidonotus natrix colubrid snake
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Alca torda1 Linnaeus 1758 razorbill
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Buteo ? buteo1 Linnaeus 1758 common buzzard
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Gadidae