Bawdsey, Suffolk [Red Crag]: Late/Upper Pliocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassidaria bicarinata (Sowerby 1815)
recombined as Galeodea bicatenata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Trophon scalariforme (Gould 1841)
synonym of Boreotrophon clathratus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Pleurotoma turricula (Montagu 1803)
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais pespelicani (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Aporrhais pespelecani
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda lanceolata (Sowerby 1817)
Wood 1850
recombined as Adrana lanceolata
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula nucleus (Linnaeus 1758)
Wood 1850
recombined as Nucula (Nucula) nucleus
Nucula cobboldiae (Linnaeus 1767)
Wood 1850
recombined as Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae
Nucula tenuis (Montagu 1808)
Wood 1850
recombined as Ennucula tenuis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula striata Lamarck 1801
Wood 1850
recombined as Caryocorbula striata
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya arenaria Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1850
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina islandica (Linnaeus 1767)
Wood 1850
recombined as Arctica islandica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus casina Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1850
recombined as Dosina cassina
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra arcuata Sowerby 1817
Wood 1850
recombined as Spisula arcuata
Mactra ovalis Sowerby 1817
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina obliqua Sowerby 1817
Wood 1850
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) obliqua
Gastrana laminosa (Sowerby 1827)
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Abra alba (Wood 1802)
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium nodosum Montague 1803
Wood 1850
Cardium angustatum Sowerby 1821
Wood 1850
Cardium groenlandicum Mohr 1786
Wood 1850
recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita senilis (Lamarck 1805)
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte gracilis Golfuss 1837
Wood 1850
Astarte compressa (Montague 1808)
Wood 1850
Astarte basterotii De la Jonkaire 1823
Wood 1850
recombined as Isocrassina basteroti
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
Wood 1850
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten tigrinus Müller 1776
Wood 1850
recombined as Palliolum tigrinum
Pecten pusio (Linnaeus 1758)
Wood 1850
recombined as Talochlamys pusio
Pecten maximus (Linnaeus 1758)
Wood 1850
recombined as Pecten maxima
Pecten gracilis Sowerby 1825
Wood 1850
synonym of Aequipecten opercularis
Pecten dubius (Gmelin 1791)
Wood 1850
synonym of Aequipecten opercularis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia patelliformis Linnaeus 1773
Wood 1850
recombined as Pododesmus patelliformis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea princeps Wood 1850
Wood 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Suffolk
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.1° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Red Crag
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Crag, which is regionally overlies the Coralline Crag. AGE: Late Pliocene, according to Rayner, 1981 on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but siliciclastic based on observation of specimens. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation and figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. Other volumes when entered will include bryozoa, brachiopoda, and anthozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature, which is revised where possible through more recent sources.
Metadata
Database number:84798
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-11-11 13:33:05 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-11-11 13:33:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28450. S. V. Wood. 1848. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves 1-208 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

23858 A. J. W. Hendy. 2007. Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions). [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]
29100 S. V. Wood. 1850. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the East of England. Part II. Bivalves 1-302 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]