Pakefield/Kessingland gravel, Suffolk, England: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Falconer and Cautley 1847)
3 specimens
Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig 1885)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis (Toula 1902)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
large.
Equus altidens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Entered in error by H.O'R..
Megaloceros verticornis
Megaloceros savini
Megaloceros dawkinsi
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
2 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
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]