Horstead: Gelasian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas meridionalis Nesti 1825
recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Norfolk
Coordinates: 52.7° North, 1.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.8° North, 1.1° 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:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Norwich Crag
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:78016
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-25 06:36:52 Last modified:2011-05-03 10:27:51
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-25 06:36:52
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]
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]