Where: England, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: pre-planorbis ammonoid zone, Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• pre-planorbis beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale
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 163299: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Psiloceras sp. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus cf. hillanus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
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Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop | |
Liostrea hisingeri oyster | |
"Pleuromya tatei" = Pteromya tatei
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Echinoidea | |
Diademopsis sp. sea urchin | |
Reptilia | |
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