Lower Lias, Radstock (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Somerset, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Raricostatum to Raricostatum (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• Likely from "Aplanatum bed" exposed in area around Radstock. Rhynchonellid brachiopods are common in Raricostatum zone, but the age is not certain from Davidson's description.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. V. Ager. 1958. A Monograph of the British Liassic Rhynchonellidae, Part II 51-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cirpa fronto Quenstedt 1871
Rhynchonella variabilis in Davidson, 1852