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
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1.4 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
2.9 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya sp. Linnaeus 1758
1.4 %-specimens
Mya arenaria Linnaeus 1758
0.7 %-specimens
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Lasaeidae
Mysella bidentata (Montague 1803)
recombined as Diarmaidia bidentata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Leptonidae
Lepton nitidium
0.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
0.7 %-specimens
Cardium edule Linnaeus 1758
9.5 %-specimens
recombined as Cerastoderma edule
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Abra alba (Wood 1802)
1.4 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
2.5 %-specimens
Macoma obliqua (Sowerby 1817)
2.9 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sp. Gray 1837
0.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
1.4 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
? Yoldia sp. Möller 1842
6.6 %-specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
14.7 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Retusa sp. Brown 1827
2.0 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Littorina littorea
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
1.4 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia ulvae (Pennat 1777)
25 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Colus sp. Röding 1798
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
cf. Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus 1758)
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]