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, 580 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 98034: 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 | |
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail | |
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail | |
Littorina littorea periwinkle | |
cf. Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Lepton nitidium clam | |
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Tellinidae indet., Macoma obliqua, "Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis, "Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Macoma obliqua Sowerby 1817 tellin clam
"Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis Leathes in Woodward 1830 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
Mya sp., "Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam |