Cromer: Early/Lower Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas primigenius Blumenbach 1799
recombined as Mammuthus primigenius
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Trichechus huxleyi (Lankester 1865)
synonym of Ontocetus emmonsi
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus-fossilis
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros etruscus Falconer 1868
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
Rhinoceros ? megarhinus de Christol 1835
misspelling Dihoplus megarhinus
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre 1789
Newton 1891 1 specimen
synonym of Tursiops truncatus
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaena biscayensis Eschricht 1860
Newton 1891
synonym of Eubalaena glacialis
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus bovides
Cervus etueriarum Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Praeelaphus etueriarum
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Norfolk
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.0° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Forest Bed
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:77750
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-18 08:09:03 Last modified:2008-01-18 10:09:03
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-18 08:09:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26261. E. T. Newton. 1882. The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk. Memoirs of the Geological Survey. England and Wales 1-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

28641 E. T. Newton. 1891. The vertebrata of the Pliocene deposits of Britain. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom 1-137 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]