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Flora and vertebrate fauna of the Barrington Beds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. L. Gibbard  and
A. J. Stuart
P. L. Gibbard
Affiliation:
Subdepartment of Quaternary ResearchBotany SchoolDowning StreetCambridge CB2 3EA
A. J. Stuart
Affiliation:
Subdepartment of Quaternary Research and University Museum of ZoologyDowning StreetCambridge
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Summary

Pollen analyses from sediment adhering to fossil mammalian bones from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, have demonstrated that the deposit is of Ipswichian zone IIb age. This is also indicated by the mammal fauna. Herb-dominated communities, which appear to have been largely maintained by the activities of herbivorous mammals, grew locally on the river floodplain, whilst temperate mixed-oak forest was present further away.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 112 , Issue 5 , September 1975 , pp. 493 - 501
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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