Colwick railway cutting: Anisian, United Kingdom
collected by A. Irving 1857
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
|
Chirotheriidae indet.
Abel 1935
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
| footprint | ||||||||||
|
= Chirotherioidea indet.
Huene 1954
|
Sarjeant 1967 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Nottingham |
| Coordinates: | 53.0° North, 1.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.0° North, 11.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Anisian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mercia Mudstone | Formation: | Keuper Waterstones |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. Irving | Collection dates: | 1857 |
| Collection method comments: Reverend A. Irving | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 184946 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-03-31 16:04:07 | Last modified: | 2022-10-13 14:05:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-03-31 16:04:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62033. | H. H. Swinnerton. 1910. Organic remains in the Trias of Nottingham. Geological Magazine, decade 5 7(5):229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 62424 | W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1967. Fossil footprints from the Middle Triassic of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The Mercian Geologist 2:327-341 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82858 | W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |