Site SS/K 1, Sidestrand [Weybourne Crag]: Early/Lower Pleistocene, United Kingdom
collected by Norton 1961

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
2.6 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia ulvae (Pennat 1777)
1.3 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Tornus supranitidus
1.3 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Littorinidae
Littorina littorea
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
12.8 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cobboldiae (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842
10.3 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
0.6 %-specimens
Astarte montagui (Dillwyn 1817)
0.6 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Pholas sp. Linnaeus 1758
1.9 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae
Mya arenaria Linnaeus 1758
12.8 %-specimens
recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina islandica (Linnaeus 1767)
0.6 %-specimens
recombined as Arctica islandica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula sp. Gray 1837
0.6 %-specimens
Spisula subtruncata (da Costa 1778)
0.6 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium edule Linnaeus 1758
3.8 %-specimens
recombined as Cerastoderma edule
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
3.2 %-specimens
Macoma balthica (Linnaeus 1758)
39.7 %-specimens
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) balthica
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax vittatus da Costa 1778
1.9 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
2.6 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.9° North, 1.1° 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:Weybourne Crag
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Weybourne Crag of the Crag Series, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Early Pleistocene, Icenian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the base of the succession in an organic layer.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of facies description and 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:Norton Collection dates:1961
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: P. Norton, 1961. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Somewhat antiquated nomenclature but with species resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:98107
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-09-20 18:31:06 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-09-20 18:31:06
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]