Also known as Great Western Railway

Where: Somerset, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 5.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lias Formation (Lower Lias Group), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• represents fossils found throughout ca. 70 ft of section, divided into 35 beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198904: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.01.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano

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