Bramerton Borehole (1160 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
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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2.9 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
Mya arenaria
Linnaeus 1758
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0.7 %-specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Lasaeidae
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Mysella bidentata
(Montague 1803)
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recombined as Diarmaidia bidentata | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Leptonidae
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Lepton nitidium
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0.7 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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0.7 %-specimens | |||||||||
Cardium edule
Linnaeus 1758
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9.5 %-specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Cerastoderma edule | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Abra alba
(Wood 1802)
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellinidae indet.
Blainville 1814
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2.5 %-specimens | |||||||||
Macoma obliqua
(Sowerby 1817)
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2.9 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula sp.
Gray 1837
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0.7 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Yoldiidae
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? Yoldia sp.
Möller 1842
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6.6 %-specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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14.7 %-specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Retusa sp.
Brown 1827
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2.0 %-specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Littorina littorea
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Natica sp.
Scopoli 1777
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Hydrobiidae
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Hydrobia ulvae
(Pennat 1777)
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25 %-specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Colus sp.
Röding 1798
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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cf. Nucella lapillus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1.4 %-specimens | |||||||||
SUBSPECIES: Nucella lapillus vulgaris | ||||||||||
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: | 1160 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 BM1, 1160 ft below surface |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified argillaceous,calcareous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Lower shell bed: occasional clay bands; basement bed below. 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: | 98040 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2010-09-17 19:45:59 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-09-17 19:45:59 |
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] |