Barnhill Quarry (black shales) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Chipping Sodbury

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; pyritic, black, gray shale

• "Dark-grey and black shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Reynolds in 1936

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 163306: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Rhaetavicula contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster
Rhaetavicula [Pteria] contorta
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Protocardium rhaeticum" = Protocardia
"Protocardium rhaeticum" = Protocardia cockle
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae