Also known as Coton End Quarry

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation (Sherwood Sandstone Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• equate with the former 'Waterstones' and 'Building Stones'. Reptile specimens were found mostly in the 'Building Stones' and 'Dirt-bed' horizons while most amphibians were found in the 'Waterstones'

•Palynological data indicates an Anisian age (Benton et al. 1994)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, fine-grained, brown, red sandstone and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• quarried for building stone, abandoned by 1890

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57944: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.01.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler

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