Bath area (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Great Oolite Group, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• group of beds-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 77248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Steneosaurus temporalis n. sp. Owen 1884 marine crocodile
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
"Stereocoenia scita" = Stereocaenia
"Stereocoenia scita" = Stereocaenia stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dendraraea excelsa Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Confusastrea cotteaui d'Orbigny 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pseudocoenia conifera, "Orbignycoenia waltoni" = Cyathophora
"Orbignycoenia waltoni" = Cyathophora stony coral