Walton-on-the-Naze: Piacenzian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Neptunea contraria
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Hinia reticosa
spelled with current rank as Nassarius (Hinia)
Hinia granulata
spelled with current rank as Nassarius (Hinia)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys opercularis (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Aequipecten opercularis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Pholas cylindrica Sowerby 1818
recombined as Barnea (Barnea) cylindrica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula ovalis
Spisula arcuata (Sowerby 1817)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Echinocyamus pusillus (Müller 1776)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850
Spencer 1966 1 specimen
unclassified
Psilonichnus sp.
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Suffolk
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.9° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Red Crag
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Waltonian (Reuverian C)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:55829
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-06 11:28:05 Last modified:2008-08-19 11:11:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-06 11:28:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15082. P. S. Balson. 1990. The Neogene of East Anglia - a field excursion report. Tertiary Research 11(2-4):179-189 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

26340 P. L. Gibbard, J. A. Zalasiewcz, and S. J. Mathers. 1998. Stratigraphy of the marine Plio-Pleistocene crag deposits of East Anglia. Mededelingen Neerlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO 60:239-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
24723 H. E. P. Spencer. 1966. An Essex fossil ziphoid whale and its implication of geographical changes in geological times. The Essex Naturalist 31(5):348-353 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]