Eaton No. 2 Core (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Cheshire, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tarporley Siltstone Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Tarporley Siltstone Formation, Lower-Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic" (King et al. 2005)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: M. J. King, W. A. S. Sarjeant, D. B. Thompson and G. Tresise. 2005. A Revised Systematic Ichnotaxonomy and Review of the Vertebrate Footprint Ichnofamily Chirotheriidae from the British Triassic. Ichnos 12(4):241-299 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197358: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 07.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Isochirotherium sp.
Isochirotherium sp. Haubold 1971 archosaur
"likely to be the slab now displayed in a case in the entrance hall of the Hurleston Water Treatment Works, Chester Road, Hurleston, Cheshire"