Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 1.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.7° N, 1.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Crag Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Crag, which is regionally overlies the Coralline Crag. AGE: Late Pliocene, according to Rayner, 1981 on the basis of foraminiferal and palynological biostratigraphy (now in the Pleistocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by S.V. Wood; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but probably Stearns Wood, c. 1840's-1870's. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: S. V. Wood. 1879. Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the upper tertiaries of the east of England 4:1-58 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84757: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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