Swanscombe (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)
Also known as Barnfield Pit
Where: United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.3° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 0.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Hoxnian interglacial, equivalent to Marine Isotope Stage 11 (424-374 ka).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. J. O. Harrison. 1985. The Pleistocene birds of south-eastern England. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk 35:53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125088: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.03.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tetrastes bonasia Linnaeus 1758 hazel grouse
Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus 1758 western capercaillie | |
| Aves | |
Melanitta nigra2, Mergus serrator2, Branta leucopsis, Anser albifrons, "Anas clypeata" = Spatula clypeata
Branta leucopsis Bechstein 1803 barnacle goose
Anser albifrons Scopoli 1769 greater white-fronted goose
"Anas clypeata" = Spatula clypeata Linnaeus 1758 northern shoveler | |
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Bubo bubo Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian eagle-owl | |
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Serinus serinus Linnaeus 1766 European serin | |
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Sylvia borin Boddaert 1783 garden warbler | |
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| Amphibia | |
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Bufo bufo1 Linnaeus 1758 toad The specimen consisted of the posterior portion of an appendicular skeleton embedded in sand and was not placed in specific context within the sediments.
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