Garden Cliff (Upper Pullastra Sandstone) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Westbury-on-Severn, Golden Cliff

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avicula contorta other zone, Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly sandstone

• "feature-forming with ripple-marked upper surface, lower part a bone bed; small quartz pebbles"

Size class: macrofossils

• "Bones of Saurians and Fishes, teeth of Reptiles, teeth of Fishes"

Preservation: coprolite

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 163317: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Rhaetavicula contorta
Rhaetavicula contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp.
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminata
Birgeria acuminata Agassiz 1843
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Gyrolepis alberti" = Gyrolepis albertii
"Gyrolepis alberti" = Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Nemacanthus sp.
Nemacanthus sp. Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
 Synechodontiformes -
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor
"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch