Bramerton Borehole (580 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
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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7.2 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Gibbula sp.
Risso 1826
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0.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Nucella lapillus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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0.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Nucella lapillus vulgaris | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Hydrobiidae
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cf. Hydrobia sp.
Hartmann 1821
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0.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Littorina littorea
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0.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Retusa sp.
Brown 1827
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1.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculanidae indet.
Adams and Adams 1858
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0.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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4.2 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Mya arenaria
Linnaeus 1758
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4.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula sp.
Gray 1837
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0.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Spisula subtruncata
(da Costa 1778)
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4.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium edule
Linnaeus 1758
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15.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Cerastoderma edule | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Abra sp.
Lamarck 1818
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0.2 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Abra alba
(Wood 1802)
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0.2 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellinidae indet.
Blainville 1814
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23.2 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Tellina praetenuis
Leathes in Woodward 1830
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7.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis | ||||||||||
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Macoma obliqua
(Sowerby 1817)
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8.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Macoma calcarea
(Gmelin 1792)
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12.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) calcarea | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Leptonidae
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Lepton nitidium
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1 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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2.8 %-specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys opercularis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| recombined as Aequipecten opercularis | ||||||||||
| 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: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Crag | Formation: | Norwich Crag | ||
| Local section: | Bramerton borehole | Local bed: | 580 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, 580 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: | 98034 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-09-17 19:37:40 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-09-17 19:37:40 |
| 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] |