Butley River cliff, Gedgrave, 1.0-1.25 m below top: Zanclean, United Kingdom
collected by A.W. Janssen 1987

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Macandrevia cranium (Muller 1776)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Pliothyrina sp.
Pliothyrina sowerbyana (Nyst 1843)
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Glottidia cf. dumortieri (Nyst 1843)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 1.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Coralline Crag
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: It has been correlated with, but probably predates at 4.4 to 3.8 Ma, the Luchtbal Sand Member of the Lillo Formation in the Antwerp area on the basis of molluscs (Cambridge, 1977), foraminifera (Jenkins and Houghton, 1987) and dinoflagellate cysts (Louwye et al., 2004; De Schepper et al., 2009), placing it in the latter part of the early Pliocene (Zanclean 2) of the southern North Sea.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified packstone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A.W. Janssen Collection dates:1987
Collection method comments: Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Metadata
Database number:187608
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-08-05 00:01:08 Last modified:2017-12-22 18:14:59
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-05 00:01:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62991. A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]