Record number JS191
   
    Number of items 1
   
    Related record JS190, JS191a, JS191b, JS194, JS226
   
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        Simple name fossil
        Full name right metatarsal of a sub-adult deer
        Other name giant deer
        Named collection Goss' Gap deer
        Classified name Mammalia & Artiodactyla & Cervidae
            System Linnaean
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        Brief description Fossil, right metatarsal of a sub-adult deer (giant deer); part of an articulating group of bones from the right hind leg; in situ find from the early Middle Pleistocene deposits, Cromer Forest-bed Formation (Runton Member, West Runton Freshwater Bed, bed d) of Goss' Gap, under pipe at Goss' Gap, West Runton, Norfolk, UK
   
    Description  
        Form metatarsal (right)
   
    Field collection  
        Place & & West Runton & Norfolk & UK
            Site name Goss' Gap
                Note4 under pipe at Goss' Gap
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            Coordinates geocoordinates : 52°56'25.65"N, 1°15'20.64"E
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            Stratigraphy rock : Cromer Forest-bed Formation & Runton Member & West Runton Freshwater Bed & bed d
            Stratigraphy stage : Cromerian
            Stratigraphy age : Pleistocene & early Middle Pleistocene
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        Method in situ find
        Person collector : Stewart, Jonathan
        Date 4.2018
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    Recorder MRW : 19.7.2019
   
    Description  
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        Condition heavily repaired
        Part:dimen:reading : length : 333 mm
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    Photography  
        Person photographer : Warren, Martin
        Date 8.11.2019
        Photograph number IMG_20191108_105436.jpg
        Photograph number IMG_20191108_110255.jpg
        Photograph number IMG_20191108_155005.jpg
   
 
JS191_1.jpg
            Type3 digitised image
            Note3 Metatarsal with articulating phalanges
   
 
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            Note3 Complete hind leg
   
 
JS191_1.jpg
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            Note3 Complete hind leg
   
 
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            Note3 Distal epiphysis almost completely fused, or weathering open again
   
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        Link jswestrunton.html
   
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        Reference Beijeersbergen, L.M. Takken & Hufthammer, A.K. : 2012 : Age determination of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) based on postcranial elements, in D.C.M. Raemaekers, E. Esser et al (eds): A bouget of archaeozoological studies. Essays in honour of Wietske Prummel. : GAS : 21 : p.11-20
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    Notes The phalanges are completelty fused; the proximal end of the metatarsal is fused while the distal end shows very faint signs of being not quite fused (maybe it is more than 95 percent fused); the tibia distal end is more or less fused (proximal end is unfused) while the femur is unfused at both ends. If this species compares well with reindeer then this puts the age at death between 27 and 30 months.
   
    Admin category importance : 1
        Note part of articulated group; right hind leg of a large deer