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
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
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
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Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam
Macoma obliqua Sowerby 1817 tellin clam | |
Lepton nitidium, "Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata
Lepton nitidium kelly clam
"Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata Montague 1803 kelly clam | |
Astarte cf. montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam | |
Yoldia oblongoides clam |