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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop | |
"Protocardium rhaeticum" = Protocardia
"Protocardium rhaeticum" = Protocardia cockle | |
Schizodus ewaldi clam |