Radstock, Middle Lias (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Somerset, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Age given as "Middle Lias" in previous publications (Davidson 1852), but most specimens come from the Jamesoni zone, which is well-developed around Radstock.

• bed-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 159322: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella anglica n. sp." = Rimirhynchia anglica
"Rhynchonella anglica n. sp." = Rimirhynchia anglica Rollier 1917
Rhynchonella rimosa in Davidson, 1852