Captain's Wood borehole, 10.55-10.65 m [Chillesford Clay Mbr, Norwich Crag Fm] (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chillesford Clay Member (Norwich Crag Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chillesford Clay Mbr of the Norwich Crag Fm, which overlies the Red Crag Fm, and is overlain by post-Crag deposits. AGE: Early Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 10.55-10.65 m below datum.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified claystone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clay. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of facies description and sample preparation.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: J. A. Zalasiewicz, S. J. Mathers, M. J. Hughes, P. L. Gibbard, S. M. Peglar, R. Harland, R. A. Nicholson, G. S. Boulton, P. Cambridge and G. P. Wealthall. 1988. Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Red Crag and Norwich Crag Formations between Aldeburgh and Sizewll, Suffolk, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 322(1210):221-272 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98113: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusca. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, and with species resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
"Yoldia myalis" = Yoldia (Yoldia) myalis Couthouy 1838 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam