Pakefield/Kessingland gravel, Suffolk, England: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon antiquus
(Falconer and Cautley 1847)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammuthus trogontherii
(Pohlig 1885)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis
(Toula 1902)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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large. | ||||||||||
Equus altidens
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Entered in error by H.O'R.. | ||||||||||
Megaloceros verticornis
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Megaloceros savini
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Megaloceros dawkinsi
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Cervus elaphus
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Homotherium sp.
Fabrini 1890
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Suffolk |
Coordinates: | 52.5° North, 1.7° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.5° North, 1.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cromer Forest Bed | Member: | Gravel | ||
Local section: | Pakefield/Kessingland | Local bed: | c | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Pleistocene. Ferruginous gravels layer, overlain by the rootlet bed. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Red-Brown sands and gravels ('ferruginous gravels'), 2+ metres thick. | |
Environment: | coarse channel fill |
Geology comments: well stratified sands and gravels. 'The restricted lateral extent of this deposit strongly suggests one or more river channel fills.' |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: First collected and published by Blake in 1884, 1890. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Temperate fauna. |
Metadata
Database number: | 49813 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2005-04-27 04:52:36 | Last modified: | 2005-04-27 09:36:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-27 04:52:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13378. | PACED | A. J. Stuart and A. M. Lister. 2001. The mammalian faunas of Pakefield/Kessingland and Corton, Suffolk, UK: evidence for a new temperate episode in the British early Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 20:1677-1692 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |