Axminster bone bed (BMNH fish coll.) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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

• marine coastal conditions, possibly a result of a storm or the Rhaetian transgression
• "lenses of grit or intra-formational conglomerate (or breccia) of sedimentary rocks with a calcite-cemented sandy matrix"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131729: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus monilifer
Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
BMNH P.2853 (Enniskillen coll.)
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
BMNH 41288 (purchased 1869)