ammonites
Bridlington [Bridlington Mbr, Holderness Fm] (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.1° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 0.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bridlington Member (Holderness Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mammal. Crag, now referred to as the Bridlington Mbr of the Holderness Fm, which locally overlies basement till and is overlain by the Fenland Formation (Geol. Soc., London, 1999). AGE: Late Pleistocene, oxygen isotope stage 2 according to Geol. Soc., London (1999). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but siliciclastic based on observation of specimens. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

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

Primary reference: S. V. Wood. 1848. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves 1-208 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84832: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.11.2008

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