Thorpe: Gelasian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Trogontherium sp.
Fischer von Waldheim 1809
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Arvicola intermedius
Newton 1882
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus caballus
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus caballus-fossilis | ||||||||||
Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas antiquus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Carangiformes
- Carangidae
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Platax woodwardi
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Norfolk |
Coordinates: | 52.5° North, 1.6° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.6° North, 1.4° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 1.80600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Norwich Crag |
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: | 77767 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-01-18 09:49:44 | Last modified: | 2008-01-29 09:53:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-18 09:49:44 |
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] |