Shepton Mallet (45.25 ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• "rubbly stone"

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Lima gigantea" = Crassadoma gigantea Gray 1825 scallop
Pecten pollux scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
"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
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Terebratula punctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Terebratula punctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis
"Rhynchonella variabilis" = Cirpa variabilis Schlotheim 1813