Anthropocene Stratotype Specimen: Fossilised Faunal remains 

0001900 BCE +\- 1ma 

Cromer Forest Bed Formation, Norfolk 

 

A sample from the Anthropocene extinction levels, containing faunal midden deposits of the dominant species, a chicken sized avian (possibly Gallus gallus domesticus). The partial skeletal remains suggest the selection of certain body parts, in this case forelimbs, but elsewhere concentrations of hindlimbs predominate. PaleoZoo-osteological analysis reveals that the bones were heated and stripped of flesh prior to deposition. 

MB 6382.9-4 

Curator

human, 0002035 CE

early-Anthropocene