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)

• described as "Rhaetic" but this represents only a portion of the Rhaetian

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•"The limestone called the "Wedmore Stone" (Bed 27 of Richardson 1911: p. 53) is a local development near the base of the Westbury Formation in the Isle of Wedmore that is formed by the Wedmore inlier." (Galton, 1998)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, lenticular, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sanford in 1894; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Sanford. 1894. On bones of an animal resembling the megalosaur, found in the Rhaetic formation at Wedmore. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society 40(2):227-235 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48644: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.03.2005

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