Wedmore Hill, bed 4 (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; poorly lithified, brown, argillaceous sandstone

• "A pale brown friable sandstone, coarsely laminated. It contains some clay..brown and white sand-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 200950: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2019

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Stacheia sp. Brady 1876