Batscombe Quarry (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Whiteside & Marshall (2008) argued for a Rhaetian age for the Batscombe quarry based on the similarity of Kuehneosuchus to Kuehneosaurus from the Emborough quarry, which they date as Rhaetian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by W. Kühne in 1946

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: P. L. Robinson. 1962. Gliding lizards from the upper Keuper of Great Britain. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1601:137-146 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12857: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 22.12.2001, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosuchia -
 Eosuchia - Kuehneosauridae
"Kuehneosaurus latissimus n. sp." = Kuehneosuchus latissimus
"Kuehneosaurus latissimus n. sp." = Kuehneosuchus latissimus Robinson 1962 crown diapsid