Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wedmore Stone Member (Westbury Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• described as "Rhaetic" but this represents only a portion of the Rhaetian
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•"The limestone called the "Wedmore Stone" (Bed 27 of Richardson 1911: p. 53) is a local development near the base of the Westbury Formation in the Isle of Wedmore that is formed by the Wedmore inlier." (Galton, 1998)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, lenticular, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Sanford in 1894; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: W. A. Sanford. 1894. On bones of an animal resembling the megalosaur, found in the Rhaetic formation at Wedmore. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society 40(2):227-235 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48644: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Avalonia sanfordi n. gen. n. sp.2
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Camelotia borealis n. gen. n. sp.1
Camelotia borealis n. gen. n. sp.1 Galton 1985 sauropodomorph BMNH R2870-R2874, R2876-R2878 (holotype), vertebrae, ribs and parts of pubis, ischium and hind limb
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Picrodon herveyi n. gen. n. sp.2
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