Tolcis Quarry (beds 1–6) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langport Member (Lilstock Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• the "Langport Beds" of the "White Lias proper"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: yellow limestone and marl

• "thin-bedded, even-bedded or rubbly cream-coloured limestones with marl partings; Beds 3 and 4 are bored limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hallam in 1962

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: W. A. Macfadyen. 1970. Geological Highlights of the West Country. A Nature Conservancy Handbook 1-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163290: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop
"Chlamys (Pecten) valoniensis"
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus hillanus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina ewaldi Bornemann 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae