Also known as Coomb Hill

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avicula contorta other zone, Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• "Lower Lias"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and micaceous, pyritic, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Saurian bones

Preservation: trace, coprolite

Collected by Dudfield in 1841

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)

• "On lowering the road to the canal which passes through the low escarpment formed by the junction of the Lias and Red Marl at Coombe Hill ... the Avicula contorta beds were cut though, and a considerable quantity of the Bone-bed was obtained."

Primary reference: H. E. Strickland. 1842. On the occurrence of the Bristol Bone-Bed in the Lower Lias near Tewksbury. 3(83):585-588 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96615: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.06.2010, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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