Elie (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.2° N, 2.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 56.0° N, 2.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Brown. 1867. On the Arctic shell-clay of Elie and Errol, viewed in connection with other glacial and more recent deposits. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 24(3):617-633 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 140361: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2013
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Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella erosa polaris turret shell | |
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
"Natica groenlandica" = Euspira pallida
"Natica groenlandica" = Euspira pallida Broderip and Sowerby 1829 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Leda (Yoldia) minuta" = Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta, Leda (Yoldia) truncata
"Leda (Yoldia) minuta" = Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta Müller 1776 minute nutclam
Leda (Yoldia) truncata Monke 1888 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula inflata Wissmann 1841 nut clam | |
"Saxicava rugosa" = Hiatella
"Saxicava rugosa" = Hiatella clam | |
Thracia myopsis clam | |
Tellina proxima tellin clam | |
Astarte compressa Montague 1808 clam | |
Pecten groenlandicus scallop | |
Crenella laevigata clam
Crenella decussata Montagu 1808 cross-sculpture crenella |