PBDB Collection

south quarry, Storeton (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Stourton, Storton Hill

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.4° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 11.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mercia Mudstone Group, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "lower Keuper sandstone", 3 beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, ferruginous, white sandstone and fine-grained, white claystone

• "a fine grained sandstone, white or cream-coloured, with occasionally more deeply iron-stained surfaces. There are a few beds of very red marl from an inch to some feet in thickness, and thinner beds of a fine white clay. In the stratum containing the footprints the sandstone is flaggy, but the rest is rather massive and compact, somewhat soft towards the top, harder below…"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Morton, H. Beasley in 1838–1906

Collection methods: surface (in situ), ,

Primary reference: H. Girard. 1846. Über die Fährten vorweltlicher Thiere im Sandstein, insbesondere von Chirotherium [On the tracks of prehistoric animals in sandstone, especially Chirotherium]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1846:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 164930: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.01.2015, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Polypodiopsida
Equisetales - Equisetidae	Equisetites keuperina n. sp.⁴ Equisetites keuperina n. sp.⁴ Morton 1863 LIVCM 1969.131 (holotype) [Liverpool Museum, UK]
Reptilia
Squamata -	Rhynchosauroides beasleyi n. sp.⁴ Rhynchosauroides beasleyi n. sp.⁴ Nopcsa 1923 squamates "Beasley's type D7"
Pseudosuchia - Rotodactylidae	"Rhynchosauroides tumidus n. sp." = Rotodactylus tumidus⁴ "Rhynchosauroides tumidus n. sp." = Rotodactylus tumidus⁴ Morton 1897 archosaur LIVCM 1987.15.L [Liverpool Museum, UK]
Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae	Chirotherium vorbachi², cf. Chirotherium storetonense¹, Chirotherium storetonense n. sp.¹, "Chirotherium beasleyi" = Chirotherium sickleri⁴, "Chirotherium minus" = Chirotherium sickleri¹, Isochirotherium lomasi n. sp.⁴, Isochirotherium bipedale n. sp.², Synaptichnium sp.² Chirotherium vorbachi² Kirchner 1927 archosaur OXFUM G40 [Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK] cf. Chirotherium storetonense¹ Morton 1863 archosaur Chirotherium storetonense n. sp.¹ Morton 1863 archosaur "Chirotherium beasleyi" = Chirotherium sickleri⁴ Kaup 1835 archosaur L "Chirotherium minus" = Chirotherium sickleri¹ Kaup 1835 archosaur B1 Isochirotherium lomasi n. sp.⁴ Baird 1954 archosaur "Beasley's type A4"; LIVCM 1986.206.A (holotype) [Liverpool Museum, UK]; WM 1533 [Warrington Museum, UK] Isochirotherium bipedale n. sp.² Abel 1935 archosaur BMNH R3483 (holotype) [Natural History Museum, London, UK] Synaptichnium sp.² Nopcsa 1923 archosaur LIVCM 1987.145.M; LIVCM 1987.145.AB? [Liverpool Museum, UK]
Saurischia -	Deuterotetrapous triassicus n. gen. n. sp.³ Deuterotetrapous triassicus n. gen. n. sp.³ Nopcsa 1923 saurischian Beasley's "type P"

Ichnofossils -	Permichnium voelckeri⁴ Permichnium voelckeri⁴ Guthörl 1934

¹Beasley 1904; ²King et al. 2005; ³Nopcsa 1923; ⁴Tresise and Sarjeant 1997