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, 860 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 98037: 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 | |
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail | |
Hydrobia ulvae Pennat 1777 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula
"Anomia squamula" = Heteranomia squamula Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Kellia pumila Wood 1840 clam | |
"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. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
Macoma cf. obliqua Sowerby 1817 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam |