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, 740 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 98036: 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 | |
Patellidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 limpet | |
Calyptraea cf. chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Littorina littorea periwinkle | |
"Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata, Cingula sp.
"Cingula semicostata" = Onoba semicostata Montagu 1803 snail
Cingula sp. Fleming 1818 snail | |
Hydrobia ulvae Pennat 1777 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule, Cardium sp.
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Abra alba Wood 1802 abra | |
Tellinidae indet., "Tellina praetenuis" = Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis, "Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 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 |