Thorpe: Gelasian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1809
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Arvicola intermedius Newton 1882
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus-fossilis
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus
Actinopteri - Carangiformes - Carangidae
Platax woodwardi
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]