Happisburgh: Early/Lower Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros etruscus Falconer 1868
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus latifrons Johnson 1874
recombined as Cervalces latifrons
Cervus ? megaceros Hart 1825
synonym of Alces (Megaceros) fossilis
Cervus capreolus Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Capreolus capreolus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bos ? primigenius Bojanus 1827
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus ? vulgaris Linnaeus 1758
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Leuciscus rutilus
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Norfolk
Coordinates: 52.5° North, 1.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.5° North, 1.3° 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:77751
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-18 08:20:04 Last modified:2008-01-18 10:20:04
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-18 08:20:04
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]