Garden Cliff (arenaceous deposit) (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; pebbly sandstone

• "Arenaceous deposit…coprolites, small quartz pebbles, and occasional pebbles of red marl."

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 163318: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Gyrolepis alberti" = Gyrolepis albertii
"Gyrolepis alberti" = Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria acuminata Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes -
"Acrodus minimus" = Lissodus minimus
"Acrodus minimus" = Lissodus minimus Agassiz 1839 elasmobranch