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
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
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lamellibranchia indet." = Autobranchia
"Lamellibranchia indet." = Autobranchia Groblen 1894 clam | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria radicula Linnaeus 1767 | |
Foraminifera | |
Marginulina ? glabra d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 |