Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sutton Formation, Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• fauna occur very close to unconformity between Jurassic and Carboniferous carbonates

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: M. Simms, C.T.S. Little, and B. R. Rosen. 2002. Corals not serpulids: mineralized colonial fossils in the Lower Jurassic marginal facies of South Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists` Association 113(1):31-36 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45424: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 22.10.2004

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