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 BM1, 710 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 98035: 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 | |
? Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Hydrobia ulvae Pennat 1777 snail | |
? Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
? Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam | |
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Mya sp., "Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
"Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis Leathes in Woodward 1830 tellin clam | |
Lepton nitidium clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam |