Brightwell Hill, abandoned sandpit (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.0° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Crag Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• "Newbournian Red Crag"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.W. Janssen in 1970

• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187612: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae