Mundesley: Middle Pleistocene, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
? Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Pseudorca crassidens (Owen 1846)
Newton 1891 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae
Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovinae indet. (Gray 1821)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus gunnii
Cervus polignacus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros etruscus Falconer 1868
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus-fossilis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Gulo luscus (Linnaeus 1758)
synonym of Gulo gulo
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus ferox Desmarest 1817
synonym of Ursus arctos
Ursus ferox-fossilis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809
originally entered as "Trogonotherium sp."
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Falconer and Cautley 1847)
Holman 1998
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus 1758)
Harrison 1979
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Holman 1998
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadus marrhua
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Leuciscus rutilus
Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenser sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Norfolk
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 1.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.9° North, 1.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: fluvial, temperate, some evidence of weakly brakish conditions
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:77754
Authorizer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-18 08:25:34 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:08:59
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-18 08:25:34
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:

26340 P. L. Gibbard, J. A. Zalasiewcz, and S. J. Mathers. 1998. Stratigraphy of the marine Plio-Pleistocene crag deposits of East Anglia. Mededelingen Neerlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO 60:239-262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
75039 C. J. O. Harrison. 1979. Birds of the Cromer Forest Bed series of the East Anglian Pleistocene. Transactions of the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society 25(1):277-286 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
66368 J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
35975 F. Leney. 1902. A list of the 'type,' figured, and described fossils in the Norwich Castle Museum. 9(5):220-231 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
35974 F. Leney. 1902. A list of the 'type,' figured, and described fossils in the Norwich Castle Museum. Geological Magazine 9(4):166-171 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]