Park Pit, Sudbourne (Walker collection) (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Suffolk, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coralline Crag Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• It has been correlated with, but probably predates at 4.4 to 3.8 Ma, the Luchtbal Sand Member of the Lillo Formation in the Antwerp area on the basis of molluscs (Cambridge, 1977), foraminifera (Jenkins and Houghton, 1987) and dinoflagellate cysts (Louwye et al., 2004; De Schepper et al., 2009), placing it in the latter part of the early Pliocene (Zanclean 2) of the southern North Sea.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Walker; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Muir-Wood. 1938. Notes on British Eocene and Pliocene Terebratulas. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 2:154-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula maxima n. sp." = Apletosia maxima, "Terebratula orfordensis n. sp." = Pliothyrina orfordi
"Terebratula maxima n. sp." = Apletosia maxima Charlesworth 1837
"Terebratula orfordensis n. sp." = Pliothyrina orfordi Muir-Wood 1938
Terebratula maxima in Charlesworth 1837 (figs 13b,c)