Lea Valley: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Scombriformes
- Scombridae
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Thynnus thynnus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| recombined as Thunnus thynnus | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 0.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° North, 0.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Pebble Gravel |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified gravel |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: pepple gravel | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 180348 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-07-13 12:50:55 | Last modified: | 2016-07-13 12:50:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-13 12:50:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45833. | A. S. Woodward. 1901. Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV 1-636 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] |