Also known as Schorlan Quarry, Porthcawl, Porth-Cawl
Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 0.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mercia Mudstone Group, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• "Dolomitic Conglomerate"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly, conglomeratic, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by T. H. Thomas, J. Storrie in 1878
Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: W. J. Sollas. 1879. On some three-toed footprints from the Triassic conglomerate of south Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35:511-515 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57952: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Brontozoum thomasi n. sp." = Anchisauripus thomasi
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