Where: England, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 10.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation (Sherwood Sandstone Group), Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)
• top of the Building Stones beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. I. Murchison and H. E. Strickland. 1837. On the upper formations of the New Red System in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire; showing that the Red or Saliferous, including a peculiar band of sandstone, represent the "Keuper" or "Marnes irisées;" with some account of the underlying sandstone of Ombersley, Bromsgrove, and Warwick, priving that it is the "Bunter Sandstein" or "Grès bigarré" of foreign geologists. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 5(26):331-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34402: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 29.08.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Rhynchosaurus brodiei" = Langeronyx brodiei1
"Rhynchosaurus brodiei" = Langeronyx brodiei1 Benton 1990 rhynchosaur WARMS Gz1046, small right premaxilla
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"Labyrinthodon scutulatus n. sp." = Rhombopholis scutulata5
"Labyrinthodon scutulatus n. sp." = Rhombopholis scutulata5 Owen 1842 archosauromorph WARMS Gz10, small block containing four vertebrae, five limb bones, seven other pieces, representing two individuals
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Osteichthyes | |
? Gyrolepis sp.3 Agassiz 1833 |