Stroud (Upper Trigonia Grit) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.7° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Trigonia Grit Member (Salperton Limestone Formation), Parkinsoni (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• very shelly and coarsely shell-detrital ooidal grainstone and packstone (Upper Trigonia Grit Member) at base

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. Childs. 1969. Upper Jurassic Rhynchonellid Brachiopods From Northwestern Europe. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 6(6):3-119 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158141: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Anisocidaris bathonica Cotteau 1875 pencil urchin
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthothiris spinosa Linnaeus 1767