Wedmore Hill, bed 5: Rhaetian, United Kingdom
collected by Sanford 1894
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lituolida
- Ammobaculinidae
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Haplophragmium neocomianum
Chapman 1894
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Ammodiscidae
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Ammodiscus jurassicus
(Haeusler 1882)
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Nodosinellidae
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Nodosinella wedmoriensis
Chapman 1895
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Rhodophyceae
- Aoujgaliaceae
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Stacheia amplexa
(Vine 1882)
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Stacheia congesta
Brady 1876
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Stacheia cuspidata n. sp.
Chapman 1895
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Stacheia dispansa
Chapman 1895
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Stacheia intermedia
Chapman 1895
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Stacheia triradiata n. sp.
Chapman 1895
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Somerset |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 2.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Penarth | Formation: | Westbury | Member: | Wedmore Stone |
| Local section: | Wedmore Hill | Local bed: | 5 | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,blue sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "A blue sandy clay, with ochreous and ferruginous layers...[residuum] consists of a coarse brownish sand" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | microfossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Sanford | Collection dates: | 1894 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 200951 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-04-25 16:10:46 | Last modified: | 2019-04-25 16:11:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-04-25 16:10:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 68861. | F. Chapman. 1895. On Rhaetic Foraminifera from Wedmore, in Somerset. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6 16(44):305-329 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |