Mundesley (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cromer Forest Bed Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• fluvial, temperate, some evidence of weakly brakish conditions

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. T. Newton. 1882. The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales 1-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77754: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2008, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenser sp. Linnaeus 1758 sturgeon
Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Melanitta nigra1 Linnaeus 1758 common scoter
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis2 Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Palaeoloxodon antiquus2 Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
"Gulo luscus" = Gulo gulo
"Gulo luscus" = Gulo gulo Linnaeus 1758 wolverine
 Carnivora - Ursidae
"Ursus ferox" = Ursus arctos
"Ursus ferox" = Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear
Ursus ferox-fossilis
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus-fossilis
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Rhinoceros etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus
"Rhinoceros etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
 Cetacea - Monodontidae
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758 narhwal
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Pseudorca crassidens3 Owen 1846 false killer whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
? Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver
originally entered as "Trogonotherium sp."
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Leuciscus rutilus carp-like fish