II.—On the Occurrence of Spermophilus beneath the Glacial Till of Norfolk

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Newton, E. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1882
• Subjects: Geology; Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800171924; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800171924

The remains of the genus Spermophilus have been so rarely found in Britain that an account of another example could not but be of interest to geologists; but the specimen described below is especially noteworthy as it has been obtained from a deposit only recently discovered, and from which no vertebrate remains have as yet been recorded. The deposit referred to is the “Arctic Freshwater Bed,” discovered near Mundesley, by Mr. Alfred Nathorst ( vide Journ. of Botany, vol. iii. 1873, p. 225), and investigated by my colleague, Mr. Clement Eeid, during the survey of the Norfolk coast (GEOL. MAG. for Dec. 1880).