Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Inferior Oolite Group, Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• A. bradfordensis zone. Was late Toarcian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1970. Madreporaires du Dogger: etude des types de Milne-Edwards et J. Haime [Dogger Scleractinia: a study of types from the Milne-Edwards and J. Haime collections]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 56(1):37-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77239: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Zardinophyllidae
Epismilia wrighti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral