Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 5.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lias Group, Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Moore
Primary reference: C. Moore. 1867. On Abnormal Conditions of Secondary deposits when connected with the Somersetshire and South Wales Coal-Basin; and on the age of the Sutton and Southerndown Series . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 23:449-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84121: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Lima gigantea" = Crassadoma gigantea, Pecten pollux
"Lima gigantea" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop
Pecten pollux scallop | |
Lima tuberculata file clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Ammonites johnstoni" = Psiloceras (Caloceras) johnstoni, "Ammonites planorbis" = Psiloceras planorbis
"Ammonites johnstoni" = Psiloceras (Caloceras) johnstoni Sowerby 1824 ammonite
"Ammonites planorbis" = Psiloceras planorbis Sowerby 1824 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula punctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Terebratula punctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis Schlotheim 1813 |