Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Bonebed is at the base of the Westbury Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, sandy conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by W.T. Ord

Primary reference: J. W. Davis. 1881. Notes on the fish-remains of the bone-bed at Aust, near Bristol; with the description of some new genera and species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:414-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122362: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011, edited by Kaitlin Maguire, Matthew Carrano and Roger Benson

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