Cromer (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 53.0° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Forest Bed Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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 77750: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas primigenius" = Mammuthus primigenius
"Elephas primigenius" = Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
"Trichechus huxleyi" = Ontocetus emmonsi
"Trichechus huxleyi" = Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus, "Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus-fossilis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Rhinoceros etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus, "Rhinoceros ? megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus
"Rhinoceros etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
"Rhinoceros ? megarhinus" = Dihoplus megarhinus de Christol 1835 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824 hippo
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
"Tursiops tursio" = Tursiops truncatus
"Tursiops tursio" = Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 common bottlenose dolphin
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
"Balaena biscayensis" = Eubalaena glacialis
"Balaena biscayensis" = Eubalaena glacialis Muller 1776 North Atlantic right whale
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Cervus etueriarum" = Praeelaphus etueriarum, Cervus bovides
"Cervus etueriarum" = Praeelaphus etueriarum Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver