Where: United Kingdom (51.2° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 0.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Westbury Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• distance above base of Wilton member, Blue Anchor Fm.; Rhaetipollis germanicus Zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• Housed in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.
Primary reference: L. Mander, R. J. Twitchett, and M. J. Benton. 2008. Palaeoecology of the Late Triassic extinction event in the SW UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London 165:319-332 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78472: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop | |
"Placunopsis alpina" = Pseudoplacunopsis alpina
"Placunopsis alpina" = Pseudoplacunopsis alpina Winkler 1859 scallop | |
Rhaetavicula contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster | |
Modiolus sodburiensis mussel | |
Protocardia rhaetica Merian 1853 cockle | |
Cardinia regularis clam | |
Ryderia sp. Wilton 1930 clam |