Also known as Grey Ledge
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Arietites bucklandi ammonoid zone, Lias Group, Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• 27 beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140334: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 08.03.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
"Otopteris obtusa" = Otozamites obtusus
"Otopteris obtusa" = Otozamites obtusus Lindley and Hutton 1834 | |
Reptilia | |
"Ichthyosaurus platyodon" = Proteosaurus platyodon
"Ichthyosaurus platyodon" = Proteosaurus platyodon Conybeare 1822 ichthyosaur | |
Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris, "Ichthyosaurus communis" = Ichthyosaurus communis, "Ichthyosaurus intermedius" = Ichthyosaurus communis
Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris Conybeare 1822 ichthyosaur
"Ichthyosaurus communis" = Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur
"Ichthyosaurus intermedius" = Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Crinoidea | |
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Pentacrinus tuberculatus Quenstedt 1858 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
"Pseudodiadema sp." = Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)
"Pseudodiadema sp." = Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema) Desor 1858 sea urchin | |
Echinidae indet. Gray 1825 sea urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonites bucklandi Sowerby 1816 ammonite | |
"Ammonites angulatus" = Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) angulatum
"Ammonites angulatus" = Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) angulatum Quenstedt 1856 ammonite | |
"Ammonites rotiformis" = Coroniceras rotiforme, "Ammonites conybeari" = Metophioceras conybeari
"Ammonites rotiformis" = Coroniceras rotiforme Sowerby 1824 ammonite
"Ammonites conybeari" = Metophioceras conybeari Sowerby 1816 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lima antiquata" = Antiquilima antiquata
"Lima antiquata" = Antiquilima antiquata Sowerby 1818 file clam | |
"Lima gigantea" = Crassadoma gigantea
"Lima gigantea" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop | |
Gryphaea incurva oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis Schlotheim 1813 |