Wedmore Hill, bed 9 (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)

• the "Wedmore Stone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, brown, yellow limestone and shelly/skeletal, gray, blue limestone

• "compact limestones. One of these is a yellowish-brown colour, and is composed chiefly of remains of molluscan shells...much altered and partly recrystallized. A second specimen is of a bluish-grey colour...it appears to consist of finely crystallized calcite; and included in the matrix are unaltered remains of lamellibranch shells, echinoderm plates, &c...The third specimen is a hard shelly limestone."

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 200953: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet., Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Autobranchia -
"Lamellibranchia indet." = Autobranchia
"Lamellibranchia indet." = Autobranchia Groblen 1894 clam
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria radicula
Nodosaria radicula Linnaeus 1767
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp.
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
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Marginulina ? glabra
Marginulina ? glabra d'Orbigny 1826