Record number JS118         Number of items 1         Related record CJ1         Note Tusk fragment found by Colin Johnson. Could be from same hippo carcass         Related record JS144         Identification           Simple name fossil         Full name lunar wrist bone of a hippo         Other name hippopotamus         Named collection Wood Hill hippo         Classified name Mammalia & Artiodactyla & Hippopotamidae & Hippopotamus sp.             System Linnaean             Status               Currency               Authority3 Lister, Adrian, Prof. (Natural History Museum) : 30.5.2018         Authority           Brief description Fossil, lunar (wrist bone) of a hippo (Hippopotamus sp.); in situ find from the Lower Pleistocene deposits, Wroxham Crag of West Runton beach, Wood Hill sand basin, in scoured area, about 11 m north from base of the cliff, in the centre of the sand basin west of Wood Hill; 569 m east of Woman Hithe datum, Wood Hill, West Runton, Norfolk, UK         Description           Form lunar (right)             Note3 front right foot         Field collection           Place & & West Runton & Norfolk & UK             Site name West Runton beach & Wood Hill sand basin                 Note4 in scoured area, about 11 m north from base of the cliff, in the centre of the sand basin west of Wood Hill; 569 m east of Woman Hithe datum. Note this is a similar locality to CJ1.                 Note4 West (1980) records bed h of the pre-WRFB succession at 555m east of datum as laminated pale silty clay, interpreted as freshwater temperate. This suggests that the hippo is pre-Cromerian, i.e. the 'Pastonian III' of West and the discove ry of hippo tusk ivory by Colin Johnson (CJ1) also suggests this would be a fruitful locality to keep an eye on for further scouring when more hippo remains might turn up. (             Locality number               Coordinates geocoordinates : 52°56'23.20"N, 1°15'42.69"E                 Note4 find site as given by JS on a Google Earth plan, which is further east than the description "in the middle of the sand basin" above.             Relative position               Stratigraphy rock : Wroxham Crag Formation                 Note4 Found after high tides and gales, in sandy orange silt, approximately 1 m altimetrically lower than the Cromerian WRFB easterly swale that occurs beneath the western edge of the sand basin. The closest section given by West is BV at 555 m east of Woman HIthe where there is a silty layer at 3.6 m below Anglian till, just above bed h, but this is thought by West to be a cold stage (Beestonian) horizon so the hippo probably came from a level lower than West records in BV. This eq uates with my observation that the spot where Jonathan found this must have been more than a metre below the organic swale recorded by West at BT. It was covered with beach sand when visited on 17.6.2018.             Stratigraphy stage : Pastonian             Stratigraphy age : Pleistocene & Lower Pleistocene             Note3 This would appear to be the first occurence of a hippo from the Crag at West Runton.         Method in situ find         Person collector : Stewart, Jonathan         Date 12.2013             Note3 following heavy gales         Collection number           Permanent location           Recorder MRW : 17.6.2018         Description           Completeness incomplete         Condition good         Part:dimen:reading : max width : 70 mm         Part:aspect:desc           Conservation           Method           Person conservator :         Date           Note           Reference number           Photography           Method           Person photographer :         Date           Photograph number         JS118_1.jpg             Number3 20210909_112450.jpg             Type3 digitised image       JS118_2.jpg             Number3 20210909_112522.jpg             Type3 digitised image       JS118_3.jpg             Number3 20210909_112553.jpg             Type3 digitised image       JS118_4.jpg             Number3 20210909_112600.jpg             Type3 digitised image         Photography           Method           Person photographer :         Date           Photograph number         IMG_20180530-165848.jpg             Type3 comparative footbone assemblage (Val d' Arno, Italy)         Reference number R09_0026.mp3             Type3 digitised recording (of identification process)         Process           Type           Method           Person :         Date           Note           Reference number           Documentation group           Link jswestrunton.html         Documentation group           Link           Class           Reference           Reference number           Notes           Admin category importance : 1         Note not known from Runton until recenty