Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coralline Crag Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Coralline Crag, which is regionally overlain by the Red Crag. AGE: It has been correlated with, but probably predates at 4.4 to 3.8 Ma, the Luchtbal Sand Member of the Lillo Formation in the Antwerp area on the basis of molluscs (Cambridge, 1977), foraminifera (Jenkins and Houghton, 1987) and dinoflagellate cysts (Louwye et al., 2004; De Schepper et al., 2009), placing it in the latter part of the early Pliocene (Zanclean 2) of the southern North Sea. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: S. V. Wood. 1879. Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the upper tertiaries of the east of England 4:1-58 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84756: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Margarita crassistriata" = Trochus (Margarita)
"Margarita crassistriata" = Trochus (Margarita) top snail | |
Amaura hesterna Wood 1879 snail | |
"Turritella (Mesalia) penepolaris" = Acirsa penepolaris, Scalaria torulosa
"Turritella (Mesalia) penepolaris" = Acirsa penepolaris Wood 1872 wentletrap
Scalaria torulosa wentletrap | |
Buccinum declive Wood 1879 true whelk
Nassa microstoma Wood 1842 true whelk
"Nassa angulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) angulata Brocchi 1814 true whelk | |
Fusus obscurus Wood 1879 snail
Fusus warlii Nyst 1835 snail | |
Pleurotoma curtistoma Bell 1871 turrid
Pleurotoma harpula Brocchi 1814 turrid | |
Murex reedi Wood 1877 murex snail
Murex crowfootii Wood 1879 murex snail
Murex pseudonystii Wood 1879 murex snail |