Bramerton Borehole (500 ft), Bramerton [Norwich Crag]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, United Kingdom
collected by Funnell 1958

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
3.3 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826
3.3 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus 1758)
3.3 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
cf. Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus 1758)
SUBSPECIES: Nucella lapillus vulgaris
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1.5 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
1.7 %-specimens
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
1.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya arenaria Linnaeus 1758
3.3 %-specimens
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Lasaeidae
Mysella bidentata (Montague 1803)
1.7 %-specimens
recombined as Diarmaidia bidentata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Leptonidae
Lepton nitidium
5 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sp. Gray 1837
1.7 %-specimens
Spisula subtruncata (da Costa 1778)
20.0 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
13.3 %-specimens
Macoma calcarea (Gmelin 1792)
1.7 %-specimens
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
Macoma obliqua (Sowerby 1817)
2.0 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte cf. montagui (Dillwyn 1817)
1.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia oblongoides
1.7 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.6° North, 1.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Crag Formation:Norwich Crag
Local section:Bramerton borehole Local bed:500 ft
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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 BM2, 500 ft below surface
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified argillaceous,calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shellbed, occasional clay bans. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of facies description of sample preparation.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:Funnell Collection dates:1958
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Funnell, 1958. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature but with species resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:98033
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-09-17 19:22:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-09-17 19:22:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33864. 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]