Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 1.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chillesford Clay Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chillesford Clay or Chillesford ClaySand. AGE: Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene, according to Rayner, 1981, on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy; Pleistocene according to Norton (1967). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within series.
• 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: P. E. Norton. 1967. Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 253(784):161-200 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84854: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.11.2008, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Abra prismatica" = Abra (Abra) prismatica2
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