Bramerton Borehole (500 ft), Bramerton [Norwich Crag] (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norwich Crag Formation (Crag Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Norwich Crag of the Crag Series, which locally unconformably overlies chalk (Cretaceous or Paleogene?). AGE: Early Pleistocene, Icenian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From zone BM2, 500 ft below surface

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shellbed, occasional clay bans. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of facies description of sample preparation.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Funnell in 1958

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Funnell, 1958. 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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98033: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature but with species resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
cf. Nucella lapillus Linnaeus 1758 murex snail
SUBSPECIES: Nucella lapillus vulgaris
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
Macoma obliqua Sowerby 1817 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Lasaeidae
Lepton nitidium, "Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata
Lepton nitidium kelly clam
"Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata Montague 1803 kelly clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte cf. montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae