Where: England, 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: Red Crag Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Crag, which is regionally overlies the Coralline Crag. AGE: Late Pliocene, according to Rayner, 1981 on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Primary reference: S. V. Wood. 1879. Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the upper tertiaries of the east of England 4:1-58 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84761: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Natica (Amauropsis) japonica, "Natica groenlandica" = Euspira pallida, "Natica triseriata" = Euspira triseriata
Natica (Amauropsis) japonica Nagao 1934 moon snail
"Natica groenlandica" = Euspira pallida Broderip and Sowerby 1829 moon snail
"Natica triseriata" = Euspira triseriata Say 1826 moon snail | |
"Trophon (Tritonofusus) altus" = Colus altus Wood 1874 true whelk | |
"Nassa conglobata" = Demoulia conglobata
"Nassa conglobata" = Demoulia conglobata Brocchi 1814 snail | |
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"Trophon altum" = Trophon alta1
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Bulimus lubricus Müller 1774 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leda myalis" = Yoldia (Yoldia) myalis2
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