Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Liasicus (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• distance above base of Wilton member, Blue Anchor Fm.; Heliosporites reissingeri Zone, Alsatites liasicus Zone, W. portlocki Subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale
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 78504: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Caloceras sp. ammonite | |
Waehneroceras portlocki ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam | |
"Dacryomya heberti" = Dacromya
"Dacryomya heberti" = Dacromya pointed nut clam | |
Palaeoneilo elliptica Goldfuss 1837 clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Modiolus minimus Sowerby 1818 mussel | |
Plagiostoma giganteum Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Liostrea hisingeri oyster |