Kent's Cavern: Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1799)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax aristotelis (Linnaeus 1761)
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anser albifrons Scopoli 1769
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Nyctea scandiaca (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Bubo scandiacus
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 3.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° North, 3.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Devensian Glaciation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kent's Hole
Database number:124957
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-03-01 09:01:01 Last modified:2012-03-09 16:32:25
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-01 09:01:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40497. C. J. O. Harrison. 1987. Pleistocene and prehistoric birds of south-west Britain. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 18(1):81-104 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

40735 L. Seward, S. D. Chapman, and A. P. Currant. 2006. A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology). Historical Biology 18(2):235-254 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]