Tuffley Quarry, Cheltenham (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Trigonia Grit Member (Salperton Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray grainstone and lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray packstone

• Very hard poorly but thickly bedded grey and brown very shelly shell-detrital and moderately ooidal grainstone and packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159768: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Sharpirhynchia acutiplicata