Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 4.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Raricostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• Gleviceras Limestone, which is part of the Armatum Bed, E. raricostatum ammonite Zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Reposited in the OUM
Primary reference: M. Edmunds, M. Varah, and A. Bentley. 2003. The ammonite biostratigraphy of the Lower Lias "Armatum Bed" (Upper Sinemurian-Lower Pliensbachian) at St Peter's Field, Radstock, Somerset. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 114(1):65-96 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33363: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 | |
"Paltechioceras tardecrescens" = Plesechioceras delicatum, Paltechioceras oosteri, Paltechioceras elicitum
Paltechioceras oosteri Dumortier 1869 ammonite
Paltechioceras elicitum Buckman 1924 ammonite | |
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Eoderoceras armatum Sowerby 1815 ammonite | |
Epideroceras lorioli Hug 1899 ammonite | |
Tetraspidoceras westfieldense n. sp. Edmunds et al. 2003 ammonite | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 |