Captain's Wood borehole, 10.15-10.25 m [Chillesford Clay Mbr, Norwich Crag Fm]: Early Pleistocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma sp.
Leach 1819
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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18 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Yoldiidae
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Yoldia sp.
Möller 1842
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.1° North, 1.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.2° North, 1.3° 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 Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Crag | Formation: | Norwich Crag | Member: | Chillesford Clay |
| Local section: | Captain's Wood borehole | Local bed: | 10.15 m | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chillesford Clay Mbr of the Norwich Crag Fm, which overlies the Red Crag Fm, and is overlain by post-Crag deposits. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 10.15-10.25 m below datum. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clay. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of facies description and sample preparation. | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, and with species resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 98111 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-09-20 20:16:18 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-09-20 20:16:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19452. | J. A. Zalasiewicz, S. J. Mathers, M. J. Hughes, P. L. Gibbard, S. M. Peglar, R. Harland, R. A. Nicholson, G. S. Boulton, P. Cambridge and G. P. Wealthall. 1988. Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Red Crag and Norwich Crag Formations between Aldeburgh and Sizewll, Suffolk, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 322(1210):221-272 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |