Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 1.0° 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. 1848. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves 1-208 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84795: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Scalaria fimbriosa" = Cirsotrema fimbriosa
"Scalaria fimbriosa" = Cirsotrema fimbriosa Wood 1842 wentletrap | |
Eulima subulata Montagu 1808 snail | |
"Turritella incrassata" = Turritella (Haustator) incrassata
"Turritella incrassata" = Turritella (Haustator) incrassata Sowerby 1814 turret shell | |
"Aporrhais pespelicani" = Aporrhais pespelecani
"Aporrhais pespelicani" = Aporrhais pespelecani Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Buccinum undatum, "Buccinum dalei" = Liomesus dalei
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758 true whelk
"Buccinum dalei" = Liomesus dalei Sowerby 1825 true whelk | |
"Voluta lamberti" = Scaphella (Scaphella) lamberti
"Voluta lamberti" = Scaphella (Scaphella) lamberti Sowerby 1823 volute | |
Pyrula reticulata Lamarck 1822 fig shell | |
"Cassidaria bicarinata" = Galeodea bicatenata
"Cassidaria bicarinata" = Galeodea bicatenata Sowerby 1815 snail | |
Odostomia plicata Montagu 1803 snail | |
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"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona1
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"Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa2
"Pectunculus pilosus" = Glycymeris pilosa2 Linnaeus 1767 clam SUBSPECIES: Pectunculus pilosus insubricus
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"Lima loscombii" = Limaria (Limatulella) loscombii1, "Lima hians" = Limaria (Limaria) hians1, Lima exilis1, Lima subauriculata1
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"Pecten princeps" = Pseudamussium princeps1, "Pecten gerardii" = Palliolum gerardi1, "Pecten tigrinus" = Palliolum tigrinum1, Hinnites cortesyi1, "Pecten pusio" = Talochlamys pusio1, "Pecten maximus" = Pecten maxima1, "Pecten dubius" = Aequipecten opercularis1
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"Lucina borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis1
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"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata1
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"Corbula striata" = Caryocorbula striata1
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"Lepton deltoideum" = Bornia (Bornia) deltoidea1
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"Cytherea chione" = Callista (Callista) chione1, "Cytherea rudis" = Pitar (Pitar) rudis1, Lucinopsis lajonkairii2, "Venus imbricata" = Timoclea imbricata1, Tapes perovalis1, "Venus casina" = Dosina cassina1, Artemis lincta1
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"Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata1
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"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule1, "Cardium decorticatum" = Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum1
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"Astarte basterotii" = Isocrassina basteroti1, "Astarte omalii" = Isocrassina omalii1, "Astarte burtinii" = Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea1, Astarte mutabilis1, Astarte gracilis1
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"Nucula nucleus" = Nucula (Nucula) nucleus1
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