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, 1220 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 98041: 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 | |
cf. Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Cerithiopsidae indet. Adams and Adams 1853 snail | |
Rissoa sp., "Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata, "Rissoa obsoleta" = Rissoa (Turboella) obsoleta
Rissoa sp. Fréminville 1814 snail
"Rissoa curticostata" = Rissoa (Turboella) curticostata Wood 1848 snail
"Rissoa obsoleta" = Rissoa (Turboella) obsoleta Wood 1842 snail | |
Caecum glabrum Montagu 1803 snail | |
Hydrobia ulvae Pennat 1777 snail | |
Littorina littorea periwinkle | |
Colus sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
Neptunea antiqua true whelk | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Abra alba Wood 1802 abra | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Macoma obliqua Sowerby 1817 tellin clam
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Cardium edule" = Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium cf. scabrum cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
Diplodonta sp. Bronn 1831 clam | |
"Venus cf. fasciata" = Clausinella fasciata, Venus sp.
"Venus cf. fasciata" = Clausinella fasciata da Costa 1778 venus clam
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Montacuta sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
Mya sp., "Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
Yoldia oblongoides clam |