Wedmore Hill, bed 2 (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wedmore Stone Member (Westbury Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, argillaceous, sandy claystone

• "dark sticky clay, almost absolutely black"; "argillaceous...fine angular and subangular quartz grains"

Size class: microfossils

Collected by Sanford in 1894

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1895. On Rhaetic Foraminifera from Wedmore, in Somerset. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6 16(44):305-329 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200948: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus auricula n. sp., Ammodiscus jurassicus, Ammodiscus centrifugus, Ammodiscus milioloides, Ammodiscus incertus, Ammodiscus robertsoni, Ammodiscus anceps, Ammodiscus fusiformis n. sp.
Ammodiscus auricula n. sp. Chapman 1895
Ammodiscus jurassicus Haeusler 1882
Ammodiscus milioloides Jones et al. 1869
Ammodiscus incertus d'Orbigny 1839
Ammodiscus anceps Brady 1876
Ammodiscus fusiformis n. sp. Chapman 1895
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax difflugiformis
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Haplophragmium agglutinans, Haplophragmium neocomianum, Haplophragmium emaciatum, Haplophragmium rhaeticum
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
"Ammodiscus pusillus" = Agathammina pusilla
"Ammodiscus pusillus" = Agathammina pusilla Geinitz 1848
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Bulimina pyrula
Bulimina pyrula d'Orbigny 1846
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Stacheia sp.
Stacheia sp. Brady 1876
Truncatulina
  -
Truncatulina stelligera n. sp.
Truncatulina stelligera n. sp. Chapman 1895