Wedmore Hill, bed 3 (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; ferruginous, glauconitic, gray, blue, sandy claystone

• "a bluish-grey sandy clay, with thin limonitic partings...fine angular quartz-grains, ferruginous particles, and a few glauconitic grains of no definite shape."

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 200949: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Stacheia congesta, Stacheia dispansa, Stacheia intermedia, Stacheia amplexa
Stacheia congesta Brady 1876
Stacheia dispansa Chapman 1895
Stacheia intermedia Chapman 1895
Stacheia amplexa Vine 1882
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Haplophragmium neocomianum
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
Nodosinella wedmoriensis